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jquinones82_469
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Jun 11, 2013

LTM External VLAN Design

How many people here have put the external VLAN for the F5 outside their Firewall?     Currently we have deployed an LTM behind the FW and we handling external NAT'ing on the Firewall. I wan...
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The_Bhattman
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Aug 29, 2013

I have had many customers ask me the same thing. They heard stories from people that they have placed the F5 LTM in front of a firewall and it's saved them from countless attacks. I have personally seen a benefit from doing this - but in my mind I wouldn't want the F5 ADC to pull double duty of being a firewall's firewall and Load balancer. I prefer keeping the functionality seperate.

 

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