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Jesus_42825
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Aug 20, 2007

Technical Question about Big IP

Hi,     In my company there is a Big IP Load Balancer. The current configuration is shown below:         SoftSwitch --> (F5 – Big IP) --> IVR x 5. In this configuration the S...
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James_Thomson
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Aug 23, 2007
Yes, you should be able to do that. The BIG-IP understands SIP traffic and you can use the SIP profile or SIP persistence to handle SIP traffic correctly. In that new scenario, the BIG-IP may need to insert a VIA header which is available in the version 9.4 SIP profile. This depends on whether the server requires to the VIA header. If not, you may need a forwarding virtual server for the response traffic since your IVR may look at the original source IP in the SIP header and send a response to there instead of to the source IP in the IP header.