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Neil8319
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Apr 14, 2017

F5 as Default Gateway Routing issue

Hi All, I'm having an issue where a certain client needs to connect directly to a node behind F5 ie bypassing the F5.   The issue I have is that the node has a default Gateway of f5 and it receive...
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Neil8319
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Apr 18, 2017

For anyone who happens to read this I found that if I changed the destination to anything other than a wildcard 0.0.0.0 the routing works. In the example above I changed the destination to be 192.168.1.0/24 on my outbound forwarding ip server and the routing works.

 

It seems my version of F5 does not work with a wildcard destination of 0.0.0.0

 

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Neil8319
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Apr 18, 2017

I thought it was possible to have a completely open ip forwarding virtual server listening on the internal vlan as many of the articles on this site seem to suggest. ie source 0.0.0.0/0 and destination 0.0.0.0/0.

 

it's obviously not the case. In anycase my issue is resolved.