How you define the standar "external" vlan ???

shudder

 

 

I have nightmares about that kind of thing... I like to try & insist on having the LTM inline. And like to keep all the VS's on a dedicated VLAN.

 

 

If I can't get the LTM inline another favourite trick is to drop an interface from the LTM into the pool member VLAN and use policy routing on the pool member to ensure the return traffic goes back via the LTM (No SNAT needed, on Linux it's an iptables rule to mark the traffic from the pool member port and have a route for that mark).

 

 

H