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Nimbostratus

Sep 11, 2014

Virtual Server using external site as pool member, routing problem?

I believe my issue is pretty straight forward but I'm not able to get it going. I'm not able to use an external host ( a host that my F5 does not have direct access to via one of its vlans ) as a poo...

Nimbostratus

Sep 12, 2014

Thank you for the replies, the thing that was causing my issue was simply the route. I really wasnt sure what to put in for the route and had used 0.0.0.0 for Destination and 255.255.0.0 for netmask.

After submitting a support ticket they had me put 0.0.0.0 for the netmask on my route. I had looked through the documentation and wasn't able to come up with that on my own, but this is now resolved.

To recap if this can help someone else.

Virtual server could not use externally hosted website as pool member, could use hosts on local vlans fine. Logged onto the f5 couldn't traceroute or ping the external site, obviously no route.

I needed to add a route on the f5 using 0.0.0.0 for the destination and netmask, and then pointed the gateway at my organizations outward bound router.