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NimbostratusWhy do I disabled PVA in layer 3 nPath route?
Reading the F5 doc(Configuring Layer 3 nPath Routing), I need to disabled PVA in layer 3 nPath route. (https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/ltm-implementations-11-6-0/6.htmlconceptid)
Why PVA is disabled in this config?
Just I want to know the mechanism of PVA logic.
BR~
As the server sends his response packets directly to the client, the BigIP can not accelerate it.
Leonardo_SouzaCirrocumulus
If the traffic is processed by the PVA, it will not be analyzed by TMM (F5 kernel). PVA is limited, mainly IP and port, source and destination.
If you are doing just nPath, without IP encapsulation, it should work with PVA. If you need to do encapsulation, I doubt PVA can handle that, so it needs to be processed by TMM.
Read this solution about PVA:
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K4832
