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LA-Engineer_160
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Jun 05, 2014
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Routing behavior for requests coming in one interface but sourced from an IP on another interface

Say I have a load balancer with the following interfaces: VLAN 1 : 192.168.1.1/24 VLAN 2 : 192.168.2.1/24 VLAN 3 : 192.168.3.1/24   I have a virtual server on the same subnet as VLAN 1 with pool m...
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    nitass_89166
    Jun 06, 2014

    Does the load balancer recognize that the source is on the same subnet as its VLAN 3 self-IP and route it directly out that interface or will it try to go back out the VLAN 1 interface?

     

    i understand return traffic will be sent via vlan1.

     

    sol13876: Overview of the Auto Last Hop setting (11.x)

     

    http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/13000/800/sol13876.html

     

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nitass_89166
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Jun 06, 2014

Does the load balancer recognize that the source is on the same subnet as its VLAN 3 self-IP and route it directly out that interface or will it try to go back out the VLAN 1 interface?

 

i understand return traffic will be sent via vlan1.

 

sol13876: Overview of the Auto Last Hop setting (11.x)

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/13000/800/sol13876.html

 

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    LA-Engineer_160
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    Jun 06, 2014
    Thank you! Thats where I saw it from. I forgot what feature it was called.