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mark_64191
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Jan 08, 2008

Question regarding multiple default gateways

Hello folks,     I am working on an inherited F5 configuration. We need to add a VLAN and have all the traffic from the virtual hosts on that VLAN use a different default gateway than the one a...
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hoolio
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Jan 09, 2008
Hi Mark,

 

 

There is an advanced configuration section which would be a good place for questions like this (Click here).

 

 

You should be fine if there is already a wildcard forwarding VIP (defined on 0.0.0.0) enabled on all VLANs handling all traffic not matched by other virtual servers. By definition the forwarding VIP doesn't use a pool. Instead it uses the routing table to forward the packets.

 

 

When you add the new VIP, it won't affect traffic coming into the BIG-IP over VLANs it is not enabled on.

 

 

Aaron