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Liquid_22_54866
Nimbostratus
May 15, 2007Load Balancing Question
Hi All,
The company I work for recently inherited a F5-BIG-LTM-1500 v.9.1.2. We do have a support contract but I thought I would ask this question here first as we are having issues in getting o...
JRahm
Admin
May 15, 2007Your configuration is refered to as BigIP-on-a-stick, or classically vip-bounceback.
Clients should hit the VIP, say 10.10.10.250:80. BigIP will need a snat (which can be defined in a snatpool, or simply select snat automap) applied to the virtual server if the servers are in the same subnet. The reason this is so is because if the F5 is not the default gateway and the traffic is passed with the originator's IP address as source, the servers will send the traffic directly back to the client, bypassing the F5. This is OK on some protocols, but not TCP, it will break. A configuration like this should work for you:
virtual iis-vip {
destination 10.10.10.250:http
snatpool iis-snat
pool iis-pool
}
snatpool iis-snat {
member 10.10.10.250
}
pool iis-pool {
monitor all tcp_80
member 10.10.10.252:http
member 10.10.10.253:http
member 10.10.10.254:http
}
Note that snat automap will use the self IP address assigned to the created vlan, whereas creating a snatpool and assigning the same IP address as your virtual gives you a certain level of control.
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