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Steele6599_8766's avatar
Steele6599_8766
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Mar 25, 2014

SMTP load balancing with Exchange 2010

So I setup the load balancing on our F5 but now have an issue with the receive connectors.. in the past we had different receive connectors on our Hub Transport for different external users. Depend...
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safeinst_110941
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Mar 26, 2014

You need a wildcard network forwarding virtual server.

 

A virtual server that is of type perfl4 defined as 0.0.0.0 enabled on your servers VLAN.

 

Create a custom fastl4 profile with loose init and loose close enabled. Please keep in mind that this will change your BIGIP's behavior from being a default deny device to routing traffic on any VLAN in which this virtual server is enabled. You will need to have routes in place to get traffic back to your SMTP servers from upstream or enable SNAT.