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Jon_43169's avatar
Jon_43169
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May 12, 2016

Incoming external client traffic in a different VLAN/IP space than Virtual Servers.

Usually when I put an F5 into an environment, it's typically (internet) -FW- (VLANx 10.0.x.0/24) -F5- (VLANy 10.0.y.0/23) - Servers. Pretty straight forward. Client requests come in, pass thru the fi...
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Stanislas_Piro2
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May 12, 2016

The bigip listen on virtual server ip even if the ip is not in the same network than the external interface.

 

Routing the virtual server network permit packets to be sent to bigip MAC address.

 

When the connection matches a virtual server conditions, it is handled by it.