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skywalker
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Jul 17, 2012

Vlans behind the F5

Hi all,     I just wanted to know what the advantages or disadvanteges are if the server vlans are behind the f5 instead of Switch.     The background of question is some of Windows Ser...
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Hamish
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Jul 17, 2012
If vlans are Routed by the bigip then you dont have to perform SNAT. Which means at the poolmember you can tcpdump a clients traffic with a simple ip address filter.

 

 

Note that the vlans may still be on a switch... You just have to use the bigip as the default gateway off he subnets..

 

 

 

 

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