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Hans_Schneider2
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Dec 04, 2014

Using F5 as default gateway in Amazon AWS

Hi!   I'm using a VPC with 3 different subnets in Amazon. They are called public, private and test. The external traffic hits the external IP of F5 in the public network and an iRule redirects the...
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Dec 04, 2014

Well, the default gateway is the Amazon gateway that exists in every subnet on the IP XX.XX.XX.1. I guess this forwards external traffic to the AWS NAT instance which then sends it with the external IP of that instance. Since I have a NAT rule using the F5 external IP address I guess it should forward to this or am I wrong? Strange however I cant see any hits in the statistics of this NAT rule.

 

It is enabled on every VLAN.