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mark_steel_1191
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Jan 26, 2013

f5s across web and app tiers / across firewalls

we are using f5's with GTM across two sites for web tier (for Oracle Weblogic apps).   we need to provide load balancing for the app tier as well which is inside the inner firewall.   is this a...
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What_Lies_Bene1
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Feb 01, 2013
Just create a VS on the server-side VLAN the web servers are part of, with the app servers as Pool Members. You'll need to SNAT to ensure the traffic back from the app servers goes back to the F5's. I appreciate it can be difficult to 'get it' and 'hold it all in your head' sometimes. If I get time I'll post a diagram over the weekend.