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Danny_Arroyo
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Oct 07, 2014

How to generate traffic from a VIP on the F5

In many cases I am asked if I can generate traffic from a VIP on the F5. In other words, I am asked to initiate a communication from a VIP that exists on the F5. Lets say a VIP on the F5 was actual...
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The only traffic I can think of that the F5 will generate are health checks but those use the self IP as the source address. I don't know of any way to generate traffic from the F5 using the VIPs IP address as the source IP address, I am curious why you would want to do that?

 

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Danny_Arroyo
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Oct 08, 2014
Our networking engineers have several VPN tunnels that go down at times. They prefer to bring the VPN tunnel back up by generating traffic that goes through the tunnel. Many of the VIPs on the F5 are on the allowed list to travel through the VPN tunnel. Therefore, we are looking for a way to generate some traffic from the F5 (bound for a destination on the other side of the VPN tunnel) that appears to be coming from one of the allowed VIPs on the F5.