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Nimbostratus

Jun 05, 2014

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Routing behavior for requests coming in one interface but sourced from an IP on another interface

Say I have a load balancer with the following interfaces: VLAN 1 : 192.168.1.1/24 VLAN 2 : 192.168.2.1/24 VLAN 3 : 192.168.3.1/24 I have a virtual server on the same subnet as VLAN 1 with pool m...

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nitass_89166
Jun 06, 2014
Does the load balancer recognize that the source is on the same subnet as its VLAN 3 self-IP and route it directly out that interface or will it try to go back out the VLAN 1 interface?

i understand return traffic will be sent via vlan1.

sol13876: Overview of the Auto Last Hop setting (11.x)

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/13000/800/sol13876.html

nitass

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Jun 06, 2014

Does the load balancer recognize that the source is on the same subnet as its VLAN 3 self-IP and route it directly out that interface or will it try to go back out the VLAN 1 interface?

i understand return traffic will be sent via vlan1.

sol13876: Overview of the Auto Last Hop setting (11.x)

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/13000/800/sol13876.html