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Fawad_29089
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Mar 19, 2012

F5 LTM setup with Cisco FWSMs

Hi,     I am going to setup F5 LTMs in our environment for server load balancing. I have a question about the placement of F5 LTMs. We want to use our existing Data Centre Gateway Switch to con...
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Sly_85819
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Mar 19, 2012
Yes there are many ways to do that as mentioned by Josh. I would prefer the approach mentioned by you if you have the flexibility of changing server IP or building a new setup. Have all server point to LTM as a gateway and then have FWSM as gateway for LTM.

 

 

User -> FWSM -> External (Virtual Servers) -> LTM -> Internal -> Servers.

 

 

You can refer to the BIG-IP implementation guide.