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wowchens
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Jun 26, 2008

F5 LTM as Reverse Proxy

At one of my clients, I am tasked with setting up a 1500 series LTM as a reverse proxy for all of the company external facing websites. LTM is being looked for less of a load balancing function and mo...
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Kevin_Stewart
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May 19, 2014

So just to level set, is this how you have it configured?

- Client passes request through the external FW to the external LB VIP (defined IP and port)
- External VIP passes traffic to a pool, which is a VIP on the internal LB (through the internal FW)
- Traffic arrives at internal LB VIP and is then passed to a pool, which is the web server(s)

If this is correct, where do you NOT see traffic?

  • client to external LB VIP?
  • external LB to internal LB VIP?
  • internal LB to server?