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Nathan_67739
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Jan 15, 2010

Forcing "routed" traffic back to gateway

We currently have a LTM 3600 (running 10.0.1), set up in a router-on-a-stick model (vlan based network with backend servers and VIPs logically, but not physically, behind the LTM).     We a...
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Nathan_67739
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Jan 16, 2010
But the servers currently have the self-ip of the LTM as their gateway... If I used a different IP, connections through the load balancer won't work without SNAT since they would respond directly to the client. (Plain TCP might, but certainly nothing that alters the stream with tcp/http profiles, or ssl offloading of any kind since the session is going to be altered by the LTM.)

 

 

Not sure if I'm explaining this clearly or not.

 

 

I saw something in another thread about "auto lasthop" - would that possibly have any applicability here? (Haven't read up on it.)