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F5Newbie
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Mar 03, 2021

How to make outbound traffic to flow through an F5

Hello,   We have an F5 LTM that front our backend middleware server-pair in a HA setup. So F5 serves as a LB that forward incoming traffic to the active one.   But we also need the backend server...
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Wow, that's enlightening statement to read!

 

Would you mind pointing me to the right document? From your first response, I got the impression that multiple devices in a complex configuration would be needed to meet our need - apparently due to my lack of knowledge. Also an F5 engineer told me F5 is just for load balancing inbound traffic, and nothing more.

 

It seems I have to understand and speak the BigIP language to understand and explain my need. So reading the right documentation will be paramount. I have read through the BIG-IP® Local Traffic Management: Basics, so have a minimum idea.

 

thank you so much!

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boneyard
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Mar 21, 2021

here are some resources to look at:

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/s/question/0D51T00007MyRgs/apm-sso-breaks-rdp-persistence - uses forwarding IP, Performance (Layer 4) is another option

 

more information on IP forwarding virtual server: https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K7595 - again many of the principles can be applied to Performance (Layer 4)

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/s/question/0D51T00006i7bEG/outbound-traffic-from-internal-vlan-server