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Virtual-wire Configuration and Troubleshooting

A virtual wire(vWire) logically connects two interfaces or trunks, in any combination, to each other, enabling the BIG-IP system to forward traffic from one interface to the other, in either directio...
Published Nov 11, 2020
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Nikoolayy1
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Jul 25, 2025

Great article Narsimha​  ! The info for the variable "vlangroup.forwarding.override" helped me as I needed to disable it as to control traffic that is allowed like udp/tcp or icmp (following Configuring BIG-IP LTM to pass ICMP traffic ) by making forwarding virtual servers as I was implementing AFM in transparent mode on iSeries for AFM rules and Layer 3/4 DOS protection.

Do this options work for rSeries vWire tenant with vWire?