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Alejandroid_114
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Jan 17, 2013

Seting up a balanced FTP pool with bypassed data traffic

  Hi,     We at the company are struggling to setup a load-balanced FTP service where the FTP data channel should, if possible, bypass the load balancer.   So far we have tried variou...
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What_Lies_Bene1
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Jan 17, 2013
Complicated! Four things may help you here;

 

 

1) Configure a routing VS on the device to handle the data traffic (it's RST because the F5 drops anything not handled by a VS or NAT/SNAT)

 

2) Enable asynchronous 'routing' by disabling 'VLAN Keyed Connections'

 

3) Is the FTP profile of no use?

 

4) Could you use an iRule to rewrite addresses in the initial data channel setup so client and server 'talk' directly?