How to load balance receive connectors and preserve source IP address.
I am in need of help load balancing our Exchange receive connectors with our F5 BIG-IP.
I want to preserve the source IP address so the receive connectors know who it is coming from.
Currently I have the following setup.
3 Exchange 2016 servers in a DAG. A SMTP monitor has been created in the F5. A pool of the 3 exchange servers has been created in the F5 with the SMTP Monitor selected. A Virtual server with the pool selected and source address translation set to none.
If I telnet to the VIP on port 25 I get nothing. If i change the source address translation on the virtual server to automap i can connect via telnet on port 25. If i understand correctly that will use only the self IP of the F5 and not the source IP address.
Any way to acheive this while preserving the source IP?
Thank you James