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VaUk89
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusLoad balancing without hiding the servers ip
Hello, I would like to have a load balancer VS that will redirect the client to the web server members of the pool. For example if I ping VS 10.195.10.10 it should return the hostname of the w...
Andrew-F5
Employee
EmployeeHI VaUk89,
"ping VS 10.195.10.10 it should return the hostname of the web server that has been selected in the balancing decision and not the one from the VS"
- ICMP requests are responded to directly by the F5 virtual server thus a load balancing decision is never made.
- https://techdocs.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/ltm-implementations-11-5-1/48.html
If you want the F5 to pass ICMP traffic you will need a Performance (L4) virtual server similar to the following, https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K7366
Best,
Andrew
