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Cirrostratus

Dec 16, 2014

Layer2 Virtual Server and IP

Hi, I am a newbie in networking so sorry for dumb question. I am not sure how exactly layer2 VS is working and why in configuration IP has to be set. As far as I can understand this type of VS i...

application delivery

BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)

Mahmoud_Eldeeb_

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Cirrostratus

Dec 16, 2014

Layer 2 forwarding virtual servers are similar to IP forwarding virtual servers because they do not have pool members to load balance. Therefore, when the BIG-IP LTM system evaluates the packet for processing, the system looks only at the destination IP address.

references: https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/14000/100/sol14163.html https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/4000/300/sol4362.html

Mahmoud_Eldeeb_

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Cirrostratus

Feb 12, 2017

thanks

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