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Ken_B_50116
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Mar 25, 2015
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Servers using LTM as its gateway can ping but can't connect on 443

I have a situation where a group of servers that use LTM as their gateway can successfully ping and tracert to servers in a totally different subnet, but are unable to connect on port 443.   Speci...
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  • Jason_40733's avatar
    Jason_40733
    Mar 25, 2015

    I keep thinking asymmetric routing... but your ports match up. a tcpdump on the F5 may give you more info where you could see all the MAC addresses.

     

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Ken_B_50116
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Jan 25, 2016

The problem here was a static route that was pointing to a different gateway than what was acceptable. I don't know how why the static route was instituted, but once the static route was deleted, the traffic took the default route and the problem was resolved.