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Feb 12, 2020
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Routing application traffic through management interface

Hello all, I have a PoC setup in our lab with a management, internal and DMZ network and have a problem with routing. The F5 always sends the connection to the ADFS backend out from its DMZ interfac...
  • cjunior's avatar
    Feb 12, 2020

    Hi dude,

    The out-of-band mgmt interface has a real benefits, especially for security and when you face issues on BIG-IP data plane controller.

    But sometimes, infrastructure limits and force us to adapt on it.

    In some cases, I used to set an "mgmt" address on traffic interfaces due to a mgmt network absent. So, I left the mgmt port/vlan unplugged from network cable or vlan, 

    I put a dummy/or default ip address to it, and then I created a selfip with default services allowed to manage that from traffic interface.

    In your case, I think is better to route traffic through firewall and keep all things working as default as you can't change de server addresses or mgmt network range.

    It's just a little case opinion.

     

    Kind regards.