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Spidey_29396
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Apr 23, 2012

re: Problem in making F5 self IP as a gateway

I have this problem. I attached simple diagram of their set up. Original setup, the core router is the gateway of all the servers and we are using SNAT at VIP to return traffic to F5. The server admin...
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nitass
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Apr 23, 2012
After changing the gateway of servers to F5 self IP, the servers were not reachable from client but reachable from F5.it works with external client (one which is not in same subnet as the bigip/server), doesn't it?

 

 

As per client, need to enable proxy arp in F5 to relay mac-addresses of servers to core router. why does the core router need to see the server mac address?