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Hamish's avatar
Hamish
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Jun 10, 2008

Non-Local poolmembers on LTM pools

A while ago, we had a small problem where a box wouldn't load its config after booting due to a mistyping defining a poolmember on a non-locally attached network.     I'm trying to replicat...
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dennypayne
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Jun 11, 2008
It is definitely supported but if for some reason you didn't have a default gateway or some other route defined when you tried to add that remote pool member, the LTM probably balked at that.

 

 

Also, it reads the config file linearly when it boots, so even if the routes were in the config file, the pool statement may have been out of order for some reason and tried to load first.

 

 

You need SNAT to do this as well, but that wouldn't have prevented the config from loading, the vip just wouldn't have worked.

 

 

Denny