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mrugal
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Sep 18, 2020

SSH access to web server behind LTM

Hello, I'm new to f5 products and I deployed simple topology in EVE-NG virtual environment. My home lan acts as Internet and my topology looks like this: Internet --- BigIP LTM --- WebServers I...
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Amine_Kadimi
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Sep 19, 2020

You have also to assign a pool to your vs. You can create the pool in "Local traffic > pools", you specify in the pool the actual servers by their ip and port. Then to assign a pool to an existing vs, go to the resources tab of the vs.

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mrugal
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Sep 19, 2020

I did it in third scenario from my previous post and it works. It looks strange to me but maybe it is from my perspective :) I was searching for NAT config without pools. I have only little experience with Cisco IOS.

Thanks for your help and guidance to solve my problem.

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    Amine_Kadimi
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    Sep 19, 2020

    You can also have a NAT configuration without a pool and without a vs. It is under Local traffic > Address translation > NAT.

    In this case you loose main F5 functions and you just forward the traffic destined to the NAT address to the origin address.

    F5 needs to be in the route of client requests. You can configure the self ip as the gw of your client.

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