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Virtual forwarding server versus routing table
Hello there:
I'm pretty new to the F5 system, recently purchased the F5 10259v. Now I am stuck with the routing, especially when I try to do the intra-vlan routing and route all vlans back to my headquarter company through Cisco ASA (VPN). I was told to setup the virtual forwarding servers, I did set them up, but none of them work!!! And I don't know what I shall do with it. In my case, it seems only routing table can help me a bit. For example I am able to route one vlan back to my remote network. When I search this forum for the right answer, I don't see much people mentioned about the routing table when talking about the VS. I get confused. If we have the routing table why bother to use the VS??
Thanks
35 Replies
- The_Bhattman
Nimbostratus
Hi Felix888, Can you provide a sanitized version of your configuration. This will help us determine what settings you might be missing or adding that coul be an issue.
Thanks,
- Felix888_164906
Nimbostratus
My network:
- Felix888_164906
Nimbostratus
So basically the above is the network diagram. Vlan 20 is the management VLAN, it will connect and manage to all switches, F5, public DNS servers etc. I need to be able to access to all vlan: 10,11,12,20,21 ... So I create the static route entry: destination 192.168.0.0 /16 via gateway 10.20.0.2 and I did setup the VS, but they simply never work: for example: forward VS1: source: 0.0.0.0 Destination: 0.0.0.0 ....
Currently by using the routing table, I can only route to vlan 20. the gateway for the host has to be 10.20.0.2
Any help would be great!
Thanks
- The_Bhattman
Nimbostratus
Hi Felix888,
Can you provide the LTM configuration?
thanks,
- Felix888_164906
Nimbostratus
Hi Bhattman:
What kind of config file I can output to? I haven't done that before, sorry...
- The_Bhattman
Nimbostratus
If you log in via CLI
You go to the following path
/config
Look for bigip.conf file. You should go through and scrub out any sensitive information before posting.
Thanks,
- Felix888_164906
Nimbostratus
Thanks! Please check the attached config file. Previously, in order to simply the diagram, I didn't put the real network ip range: here is the brief about the IP: 10.20.0.0 is 10.0.2.0 in the config 10.21.0.0 is 10.0.20.0 in the config. the rest of IP range is used internally for the lan, dmz and other networks.
apm client-packaging /Common/client-packaging { } apm resource remote-desktop citrix-client-bundle /Common/default-citrix-client-bundle { } asm predefined-policy POLICY_TEMPLATE_ACTIVESYNC_V1_0_V2_0_HTTP { } asm predefined-policy POLICY_TEMPLATE_ACTIVESYNC_V1_0_V2_0_HTTPS { } asm predefined-policy POLICY_TEMPLATE_LOTUSDOMINO_6_5_HTTP { } asm predefined-policy POLICY_TEMPLATE_LOTUSDOMINO_6_5_HTTPS { } asm predefined-policy POLICY_TEMPLATE_ORACLE_10G_PORTAL_HTTP { } asm predefined-policy POLICY_TEMPLATE_ORACLE_10G_PORTAL_HTTPS { } asm predefined-policy POLICY_TEMPLATE_ORACLE_APPLICATIONS_11I_HTTP { } asm predefined-policy POLICY_TEMPLATE_ORACLE_APPLICATIONS_11I_HTTPS { } asm predefined-policy POLICY_TEMPLATE_OWA_EXCHANGE_2003_HTTP { } asm predefined-policy POLICY_TEMPLATE_OWA_EXCHANGE_2003_HTTPS { } asm predefined-policy POLICY_TEMPLATE_OWA_EXCHANGE_2003_WITH_ACTIVESYNC_HTTP { } asm predefined-policy POLICY_TEMPLATE_OWA_EXCHANGE_2003_WITH_ACTIVESYNC_HTTPS { } asm predefined-policy POLICY_TEMPLATE_OWA_EXCHANGE_2007_HTTP { } asm predefined-policy POLICY_TEMPLATE_OWA_EXCHANGE_2007_HTTPS { } asm predefined-policy POLICY_TEMPLATE_OWA_EXCHANGE_2007_WITH_ACTIVESYNC_HTTP { } asm predefined-policy POLICY_TEMPLATE_OWA_EXCHANGE_2007_WITH_ACTIVESYNC_HTTPS { } asm predefined-policy POLICY_TEMPLATE_OWA_EXCHANGE_2010_HTTP { } asm predefined-policy POLICY_TEMPLATE_OWA_EXCHANGE_2010_HTTPS { } asm predefined-policy POLICY_TEMPLATE_PEOPLESOFT_PORTAL_9_HTTP { } asm predefined-policy POLICY_TEMPLATE_PEOPLESOFT_PORTAL_9_HTTPS { } asm predefined-policy POLICY_TEMPLATE_RAPID_DEPLOYMENT { } asm predefined-policy POLICY_TEMPLATE_SAP_NETWEAVER_7_HTTP { } asm predefined-policy POLICY_TEMPLATE_SAP_NETWEAVER_7_HTTPS { } asm predefined-policy POLICY_TEMPLATE_SHAREPOINT_2003_HTTP { } asm predefined-policy POLICY_TEMPLATE_SHAREPOINT_2003_HTTPS { } asm predefined-policy POLICY_TEMPLATE_SHAREPOINT_2007_HTTP { } asm predefined-policy POLICY_TEMPLATE_SHAREPOINT_2007_HTTPS { } asm predefined-policy POLICY_TEMPLATE_SHAREPOINT_2010_HTTP { } asm predefined-policy POLICY_TEMPLATE_SHAREPOINT_2010_HTTPS { } ltm default-node-monitor { rule none } ltm virtual /Common/Forwarding-Headquater-VS { description "Forward Traffic back to headquater" destination /Common/192.168.0.0:0 ip-forward ip-protocol tcp mask 255.255.0.0 profiles { /Common/fastL4 { } } source 10.0.2.0/24 source-address-translation { type automap } translate-address disabled translate-port disabled vlans { /Common/headquater_Manage } vlans-enabled } ltm virtual /Common/Internal-routing1 { description "Management VLAN internal routing" destination /Common/10.0.2.0:0 ip-forward ip-protocol tcp mask 255.255.255.0 profiles { /Common/fastL4 { } } source 0.0.0.0/0 source-address-translation { type automap } translate-address disabled translate-port disabled } ltm virtual /Common/Internal-routing2 { description "VManage-VLAN internal routing" destination /Common/10.0.7.0:0 ip-forward ip-protocol tcp mask 255.255.255.0 profiles { /Common/fastL4 { } } source 0.0.0.0/0 source-address-translation { type automap } translate-address disabled translate-port disabled vlans { /Common/VManage-ESX } vlans-enabled } ltm virtual /Common/Internal-routing3 { description "SETWEBVIP- VLAN internal routing" destination /Common/10.0.20.0:0 ip-forward ip-protocol tcp mask 255.255.255.0 profiles { /Common/fastL4 { } } source 0.0.0.0/0 source-address-translation { type automap } translate-address disabled translate-port disabled vlans { /Common/SET-WEBVIP } vlans-enabled } ltm virtual-address /Common/10.0.2.0 { address 10.0.2.0 arp disabled icmp-echo disabled mask 255.255.255.0 traffic-group /Common/traffic-group-1 } ltm virtual-address /Common/10.0.7.0 { address 10.0.7.0 arp disabled icmp-echo disabled mask 255.255.255.0 traffic-group /Common/traffic-group-1 } ltm virtual-address /Common/10.0.16.0 { address 10.0.16.0 arp disabled icmp-echo disabled mask 255.255.255.0 traffic-group /Common/traffic-group-1 } ltm virtual-address /Common/10.0.20.0 { address 10.0.20.0 arp disabled icmp-echo disabled mask 255.255.255.0 traffic-group /Common/traffic-group-1 } ltm virtual-address /Common/192.168.0.0 { address 192.168.0.0 arp disabled icmp-echo disabled mask 255.255.0.0 traffic-group /Common/traffic-group-1 } ltm virtual-address /Common/192.168.130.0 { address 192.168.130.0 arp disabled icmp-echo disabled mask 255.255.255.0 traffic-group /Common/traffic-group-1 } net route /Common/headquater-Network { description "Access to Headquater Network through VPN" gw 10.0.2.2 mtu 1500 network 192.168.0.0/16 } net route /Common/Default-Gateway { description "Default Internet Gateway" interface /Common/WAN mtu 1500 network default } net ipsec ike-daemon /Common/ikedaemon { } security http profile /Common/http_security_migrated_httpsecurity_profile { app-service none case-sensitive defaults-from /Common/http_security description "This profile was created by upgrade migration process from the original HTTP
Security Profile named: [http_security]" evasion-techniques { alarm enabled block disabled } file-types { alarm enabled block disabled } http-rfc { alarm enabled bad-host-header enabled bad-version enabled block disabled body-in-get-head disabled chunked-with-content-length enabled content-length-is-positive enabled header-name-without-value enabled high-ascii-in-headers disabled host-header-is-ip disabled maximum-headers 20 null-in-body enabled null-in-headers enabled post-with-zero-length disabled several-content-length enabled unparsable-content enabled } mandatory-headers { alarm enabled block disabled } maximum-length { alarm enabled block disabled post-data 15728640 query-string 1024 request any uri 1024 } methods { alarm enabled block disabled values { GET POST HEAD } } response { body "Request RejectedThe requested URL was
rejected. Please consult with your administrator.
()%>" headers "HTTP/1.1 200 OK Cache-Control: no-cache Pragma: no-cache Connection: close" type default url none } } sys software update { auto-check enabled frequency weekly } wom endpoint-discovery { }
- Felix888_164906
Nimbostratus
Sorry, it looks messy, it doesn't seem to allow me to attach the file.
- The_Bhattman
Nimbostratus
It's a bit hard to go through, but did you enable the VS forwarding on specific VLANS rather then all of them?
- Felix888_164906
Nimbostratus
As of now I am only able to access to 10.0.2.0 network remotely. I cannot to access to 10.0.7.0/24 at all although there are servers running there.
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