Simple Round Robin configuration

Posted By Skuba on 06/10/2011 03:06 AM

 

Being able to connect from an external machine (either on the same subnet or on another subnet) to the IP 192.168.100.160 and being balanced to 161 and 162 alternatively refreshing the browser.unfortunately this isn't a direct answer to your question, but i would say that having the client, the virtual server, and the web servers on the same subnet may cause you problems when testing. when the traffic hits the back end server it's not going to route back out through big ip as the client and the server are on the same subnet (i.e. communication will be over layer 2 rather than layer 3)

 

 

that's my understanding anyway! hope it helps a little

 

 

 

 

Thanks Skuba. Yes I believe this is the default policy (although I understand BIGIP can be configured to be the middleman in the communication back to the client). What would be the problem you foresee in a L2 communication vs L3?

 

 

Anyhow because of this I have started to test solely from a client that is behind the router on a different subnet. Right now I have created a static route on the client to reach the 192.168.100.160 virtual server although my ultimate goal will be to NAT the 160 address into an address on the client subnet. Expect a new discussion on that as I anticipate other problems :-D

 

 

 

Thanks!

 

 

 

Massimo.