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Hamada_Tabosha_'s avatar
Hamada_Tabosha_
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Nov 03, 2013

VLAN group

Dears , I have red about the vlan group , they mentioned the following : ( 1- VLAN groups are intended for load balancing traffic in a Layer 2 network, when you want to minimize the reconfiguration o...
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Hamada_Tabosha_'s avatar
Hamada_Tabosha_
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Nov 04, 2013

Thank you Philou and Joanna, your descriptions are very accurate , I got them.

 

but regarding to the second point , Joanna you are true this is the case , in this case as you said the host and the server communicate through the vlan group , as the f5 will broadcast the arp sent by the host to the servers vlan , then they will communicate directly , but what if the host want to hit the virtual server not the physical server , then it will be the case of virtual server with snat auto map and the vlan group will not benefit us , right ?

 

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Stanislas_Piro2
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Dec 28, 2018

If you want to disable SNAT, you can configure the F5 in routing mode...

 

Routing mode is the best way to avoid issues instead of vlan group.