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Log4j2
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Jul 25, 2023
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Windows File Share via F5 VIP

So I've read a couple posts on here regarding using a VIP to forward file sharing requests to a pool and haven't been able to get anything working. I've tried: A VIP running all ports/services and...
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Jul 26, 2023

Paulius I put together a quick flow of current state and what I'm trying to achieve

In the new flow, the VIP IP is a host entry on all servers known as, for this example, 'vip-alias'.

 

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Paulius
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Jul 27, 2023

Log4j2 Based on what you provided this is in path between the source and the destination so you should not need SNAT. What information are you seeing when you perform a tcpdump on the F5. You can try the following to see what you get. This should save the file and then allow you to open it up in wireshark.

tcpdump -nni 0.0:nnp host <vs_IP> -w /shared/tmp/mycapture.pcap