TFTP virtual server - why not just a VIP listening on all ports with port translation disabled?
I'm looking to establish a virtual server for TFTP (for boot file retrievai via DHCP option 66/67). The examples given all depict an iRule that sets up a separate listening port for the "meet me" port that is returned after the initial exchange on port 69. My question is - why is that necessary? Why can't you just create a virtual server that listens on any port, without doing port translation (and with persistence based on e.g. source IP)? Wouldn't the following exchange be handled cleanly by that? Client UDP -> VIP:69 -> ServerA:69 (returns "meet me on port 50000") Client UDP -> VIP:50000 -> ServerA:50000 Is the concern that two servers might pick the same meet-me port? If so, would it work with priority group activation set such that only 1 server was accessed? (that wouldn't provide for load balancing, but would handle redundancy requirements).
External Monitor + cURL + TFTP + Route Domains
Hi, I'm trying to do a external monitor to check if a tftp server is alive. During the development of the external monitor in a LAB, without route domains all works fine. After applying in production with route domains it no longer works as expected. The basic of the external monitor is: curl --globoff --silent --max-time 5 -o /dev/null tftp://[10.xx.xx.180]:69/probef5 After a packet capture we see it is the LTM reply with a ICMP Port Unreachable Even using tftp command in bash, the firt time run as expected, second in a row, it fail with timeout [adm@LTM:/S1-green-P::Active:Changes Pending] run # rdexec 14 tftp -v 10.xx.xx.180 -c get probef5 Connected to 10.xx.xx.180 (10.xx.xx.180), port 69 getting from 10.xx.xx.180:probef5 to probef5 [netascii] Received 7 bytes in 0.0 seconds [1640 bit/s] [adm@LTM:/S1-green-P::Active:Changes Pending] run # rdexec 14 tftp -v 10.xx.xx.180 -c get probef5 Connected to 10.xx.xx.180 (10.xx.xx.180), port 69 getting from 10.xx.xx.180:probef5 to probef5 [netascii] Transfer timed out. Any help would be appreciated.
