one-arm mode load balancing without snat?
Hi,
I have a customer that wants to deploy one-arm mode due to high demand in management traffic of the nodes. the nodes would have static routes to management networks and a default route to the F5 BIG-IP.
the nodes would still receive load balanced traffic from the internet. which would go through the BIG-IP. return traffic to the internet would also go through the BIG-IP because the nodes have a DG going to the BIG-IP self IP.
I guess a good way to describe this is a "hybrid" topology
one-arm mode because the virtual server is on same vlan as NODES.
routed mode because the nodes use the BIG-IP as the default gateway.
I have somewhat attempted this configuration but I see traffic is not forwarded from virtual server to the pool. is snat required one using one VLAN for all traffic?