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Marc_Jones_4616
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Apr 14, 2009

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We have 2 F5 LTM's in a HA pair. They are placed on a Cisco switch in a L3 environment. All servers default gateways that use the F5 use the Cisco switch as the DG.     We are now start...
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The_Bhattman
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Apr 14, 2009
You have 3 from what I can think of.

 

 

1. You could use x-forward if your application is web based. Your application will need to know how to log it in order for that to work correctly. This is ofcourse limited to http standards.

 

 

2. Repoint the servers DG to the F5, which is primary the default scenario that I have seen from F5.

 

 

3. Introduce Policy based Routes (Pbr) on the Cisco switch L3. Basically the servers continue to point to the L3 switch for the DG. The Pbr will provide you the mechanism to flow the traffic to other networks that live on the Cisco L3 and and direct traffic traffic back to the LBs for everything else. You can base the Pbr on source and destination addresses.

 

 

Hope this helps

 

CB