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NimbostratusF5 Load Balance To External Transparent Proxy
It depends on what you want.
If all you want is load balancing, a performance L4 Virtual will do just fine, and a single virtual can support both TCP and UDP.
Your external proxies can then be configured as pool members and you can select the load balancing algorithm of choice.
If you want to be able to use irules to do other things at layers 4 to 7, then you will need to use standard VIPs. With Standard VIPs, you can only have them as either TCP or UDP (not one virtual handling both). Standard VIPs give you the ability to apply TCP optimizations etc and do do pretty much anything to the traffic via irules and or Local Traffic Policies.
It depends on what you want.
If all you want is load balancing, a performance L4 Virtual will do just fine, and a single virtual can support both TCP and UDP.
Your external proxies can then be configured as pool members and you can select the load balancing algorithm of choice.
If you want to be able to use irules to do other things at layers 4 to 7, then you will need to use standard VIPs. With Standard VIPs, you can only have them as either TCP or UDP (not one virtual handling both). Standard VIPs give you the ability to apply TCP optimizations etc and do do pretty much anything to the traffic via irules and or Local Traffic Policies.
