Load balancing anti-spam servers

Hi,

yes f5 is capable of load balancing anti-spam servers. Deployment guide link

Thanks Vitaliy!

Hi Vitaliy,

do the traffic needs to return to same server? I have one arm deployment like below.

GGSN <> Router <> L2 switch <> FW <> Internet Traffic--> | F5 | server farm

F5 is connected to L2 switch and anti-spam server connected to F5. Sorry for the diagram.

I may suppose (know nothing about your routing scheme and network map):

1. If you use NAT for antispam servers on F5 device traffic will return to the same server during active session. If you need to be sure about this you can use persistance.

    

2. If you antispam system use ip address reputation you need to have no translation for source address of incoming connections.