Servers hosted externally

Hi Rex,

 

 

I use this setup every time to present WA capabilities. You just have to configure a route on WA to give it a path to join external server and use SNAT Automap feature on Virtual Server. This feature is similar as source NAT : request to original web server are sent with IP address of WA to ensure response will be processed by WA engine to provide acceleration feature (IBR, Multiconnect, Dynamic Caching, ...).

 

 

Hope this helps.

 

 

Regards,

 

 

Nicolas

Here is a link to a tool that help you find out if web acceleration will work for you site.

 

 

http://www.f5demo.com/compression/index.php

 

 

Hope this helps

 

 

CB

 

 

Hi Nicolas,

 

 

Should my WA be located before or after the firewall? Because right now my WA is located after the firewall and configure my default route to the IP address of my firewall.

 

 

Sorry I'm new to LTM and WA.

 

 

Thanks,

 

 

Rex

Hi Rex,

 

In my opinion, I would place it behind the firewall, because you atleast want to protect your WA.

 

 

thanks,

 

CB

 

 

 

 

I agree but be careful to no overload firewall because it will see traffic twice : request client -> WA, request WA -> server, response server -> WA and response WA -> client.

 

 

Regards,

 

 

Nicolas