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Dev_56330
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May 13, 2014

Using LTM to load-balance applications in geographically different site

I am looking for assistance load balancing a pool in which the pool members reside in a separate geographical location. See below for my scenario. Big IP at SiteA * Virtual Server to load balance S...
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kunjan
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May 13, 2014

For the the pool members in site B, since I cannot assign an ip address from site B to the big ip at site A,

 

If you are trying to assign the self ip from Site B subnet, that's not needed. The self IP still can be from site A and you can still can connect. Just need your default gateway(next hop router) reachable from self IP.

 

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Dev_56330
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May 13, 2014
Understood, this would never work anyway by assigning an ip from a different ip space with no routes in place. However, in this case I am able to ping the default gateway using the self ip address as the source ip.