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niboto_335022
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Oct 10, 2017

is F5 acting as a proxy for IP forwarding VS?

F5 LTM is described as full proxy. I understand that the following data path between my client, the F5 and the server for TCP trafficis as follow: we have 2 TCP connections where F5 ends the TCP1 co...
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Lee_Sutcliffe's avatar
Lee_Sutcliffe
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Oct 10, 2017

With a forwarding virtual server, packets are forwarded like a router. However by default this is only for the first SYN packet, to forward traffic mid-flow you'll need to configure Loose Initiation in the TCP profile for it to act more like a router.