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Dmetcalfe_13626's avatar
Dmetcalfe_13626
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Nov 13, 2013

Need to permit public websites to be load balanced internally

Ok, I am very green. I have only ever done labs with the LTM 11.4. Now, I am being asked to take two public facing ips and load balance balance them to the web servers that host them. I have been tol...
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What_Lies_Bene1
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Nov 13, 2013

What are you going to run, VE or physical? HA pair or single?

 

Why two IPs? As your load balancing we can reduce this to one yes? Are you able to modify the DNS that points to the public IP.

 

Does a firewall NAT the public IPs to an internal address?

 

What interfaces does the F5 need? External and internal? Will external be in a public address range?

 

Can the F5 be the default gateway for the web servers?

 

The more information you can provide the better please.