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BankIT's avatar
BankIT
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Sep 27, 2019

Forwarding virtual server sends RESET against any IP addresses not associated with virtual server and self-ip addresses

In our environment we have a number of subnets that reside behind our F5's and use them as the default gateway. We have experienced a number of issues when performing network scans using various tool...
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James_Thomson
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Oct 02, 2019

What behavior are you hoping to see? Do you want BIG-IP to just route all the scanning traffic?

If so, your forwarding virtual server should be of type "Forwarding IP" and have a destination of the network subnet like 0.0.0.0/0:0 or 10.0.0.0/8:0 or 192.168.10.0/24:0