Mirroring F5 LTM Traffic

Question

we have IDS &amp; needs to mirror all traffic to it 
can F5 send traffic to it , is the below still valid at Version 11 :&nbsp;
http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/archived_products/big-ip/manuals/product/bigip4_5admin/BIGip_ids.html&nbsp;

routingloop_179 · Accepted Answer

Yes I believe it is,  you should look at pool clones. In v11 you can essentially create another pool containing your IDS devices and then associate this pool as a cloned pool on your VS either client side or server side.
Take a look here - I think this is what you are asking for, it describes pool cloning a bit more.
http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/13000/300/sol13392.html&nbsp;

iaine · Answer

Rather than going down the cloning pool route when I set this up a while back, I set up Interface Mirroring instead and then let the IDS filter out what it needed. My reasoning being that a network SPAN would probably less CPU intensive than the inspection needed to clone a specific service

iaine · Answer

Rather than going down the cloning pool route when I set this up a while back, I set up Interface Mirroring instead and then let the IDS filter out what it needed. My reasoning being that a network SPAN would probably less CPU intensive than the inspection needed to clone a specific service

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