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genseek_32178
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Oct 29, 2013

VIP Issue

Hi Experts,   We have a VIP with pool members doing asymmetric routing causing the reply packet to bypass F5 and goin directly to upstream router. For this reason, url mapped to the VIP is not wor...
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Kevin_Stewart
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Oct 29, 2013

For this reason, url mapped to the VIP is not working.

 

Is it that requests aren't going to the VIP, or that you're not seeing the reply? I'm assuming the latter. Do you have a specific need for asymmetric routing? Otherwise, you could simply make the BIG-IP's internal self-IP address the default gateway for the back end servers, or depending on protocol, inject the client's true source into the ingress packets or headers.