Member Server communcation to VIP

Chris makes a good point: be sure and use a valid request with your telnet sessions. You're dead right that the connection is established to the VIP (3 way handshake). What happens next is that the BigIP is waiting for a set of complete HTTP headers to parse, then it'll forward the request on. So in case you've not done so, be sure and type something like:

 

 

telnet foo.com 80

 

GET /index.html HTTP/1.1

 

Host:

 

Connection: close

 

 

...followed by two enter key hits to complete the HTTP request properly.

 

 

Then see what you find on the server side. You should see the request come into the logs. If not, you'll need to start tcpdump-ing to figure out where the traffic is going.

 

-Matt