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mukul
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Aug 16, 2017

why big ip needs to access hosts of vlan for which it ask a self ip.

i know that management ip is different from self ip. management ip is required to connect the appliance through internet and performing updates and changes to the appliance.and self ip is required to...
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MvdG
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Aug 16, 2017

Hi,

 

The BIG-IP act as a full proxy. So there are two TCP connections. One at the client side and one at the (backend) server side.

 

So the TCP connection at the server side comes from the self-IP of the server VLAN. In a cluster setup, this TCP connections comes from the float-IP.

 

To monitor backend servers, you can add a monitor to a pool and nodes. This monitor traffic comes from the self-ip address of the BIP-IP.

 

Hopes this helps.

 

Martijn

 

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    mukul
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    Aug 17, 2017

    thanks a lot for your time. i've got it a little bit but could be more elaborating.?plz

     

    as per my understanding i've drawn this diagram and i think to access those each servers in different vlans it needs a self ip. but cannot it communicate with those servers with its own management ip.