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LucasRey
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Apr 10, 2022
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Simple balancing doesn't work

Good morning community, I have to configure, for my work, a F5 VE. So, I download F5 VE 13.1.4 in my lab @home and install it on VMWare to make practice and understand the F5 basics. What I did is co...
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  • Enes_Afsin_Al's avatar
    Enes_Afsin_Al
    Apr 10, 2022

    Hi Lucas,

    Is SNAT active on the virtual server? If SNAT is not active, your connection may fail due to asymmetric traffic. When you telnet over the CLI, there is no connection problem because the source IP is F5. The same goes for monitor requests.

    K7820: Overview of SNAT features:
    https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K7820

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Enes_Afsin_Al
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Apr 10, 2022

Hi Lucas,

Is SNAT active on the virtual server? If SNAT is not active, your connection may fail due to asymmetric traffic. When you telnet over the CLI, there is no connection problem because the source IP is F5. The same goes for monitor requests.

K7820: Overview of SNAT features:
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K7820