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westtex_98130
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Oct 01, 2012

seperating traffic of virtual servers

Hello Everyone   I am new to F5, sorry, but I have been going through the f5 documentation, the training videos etc, and I have a couple of questions,   my current setup assumed only one applic...
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nitass
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Oct 06, 2012
The last question I have then is how do I configure the routes?for return traffic, we do not really need default route. auto lasthop is feature bigip uses to track source mac address when traffic is coming, so bigip will just send return traffic to that mac address (no route lookup is performed).

 

 

sol11796: Overview of the Auto Last Hop setting (9.x - 10.x)

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/11000/700/sol11796.html

 

 

anyway, if server initiates traffic, it is different story. in that case, bigip still need default route.

 

 

LTM: Per-VLAN Default Gateways by Deb

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/Tutorials/TechTips/tabid/63/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/247/LTM-Per-VLAN-Default-Gateways.aspx

 

 

hope this helps.