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Telnet from Floating Self IP
I am in the process of testing firewall rules for a HA pair of LTMs.
I need to be able to generate telnet traffic from the floating self IP to ensure that production traffic will be allowe...
nitass
Employee
Employeeis netcat useful i.e. using netcat as telnet client?
Ken_Schultz_525
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusYes, nc can be used to generate the test traffic on any given port. HOWEVER... it fails when you use "-s [Floating-IP]"
eg
nc -v -z -s 10.1.1.2 10.3.4.5 80
....works fine when .2 is the self-ip, however...
nc -v -z -s 10.1.1.1 10.3.4.5 80
.... fails with
nc: bind failed: Cannot assign requested address.
Anyone know how to source the test traffic from a floating -IP ?