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Oseias_68756
Nimbostratus
Mar 11, 2010Which of these two designs is better? why?
Design 1:
INTERNET -> ROUTER -> FIREWALL -> F5-LTM -> SERVERS
With router to Firewall using private addresses
Firewall to F5 using PUBLIC addresses
F5 to Se...
JRahm
Admin
Mar 11, 2010Design two is normally avoided due to limited IP availability. If you control the routing table and the l3/l4 packet flow with firewall rules, I'm not sure it really matters what IP ranges you use inside your infrastructure. However, using private addresses internally gives you a little more flexibility in moving around the public addresses externally. My $.02.
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