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STTR_85331
Nimbostratus
Mar 31, 2011LTM DMZ Design Question
Greetings,
We have been running a pair of LTMs in production for several years in what I would consider "one-armed" mode in that the traffic flows as follows:
Internet<-->Firewall...
Hamish
Cirrocumulus
Mar 31, 2011My 2p... I don't bother load balancing protocols that load-balance themselves. e.g. SMTP. HTTP always. ftp sometimes...
One architecture I've had good experiences with (One that a colleague came up with. Hi Clarkie!) is to put the F5 between the firewall ad the DMZ's. You can use the F5 to route traffic vioa the firewall still where it has to traverse from one DMZ to another. And everything can be load-balanced without having to worry about firewalling (Because the firewall does it still), or SNAT.
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