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Charles_Lamb
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Oct 04, 2013

VIP under VIP configuration using nexthop

I have two pairs of LTMs. On pair one I have a VIP configured with a pool member that is a VIP on pair 2. I want to use nexthop to specify the vlan that pair one uses to get to pair 2 and for some re...
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Oct 07, 2013

I did use logging to validate that the matchclass argument is working. The subnet for the next hop is directly connected to the F5. The problem we are trying to solve is that without specifying the next hop traffic comes in on one vlan and leaves on another. I am using tcp dumps to validate the vlans. I have also specified the vlan in the next hop command and it did not change the outcome. It seems like under the WHEN LB_SELECTED event nexthop is just ignored... It appears to be doing something under CLIENT_ACCEPTED and HTTP_REQUEST but it breaks my test all together... I am still trying to figure out why that is.