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Dinesh_Subrama2
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Nov 20, 2013

Need help in writing an irule in Link Controller to forward traffic

I have 3 service provider internet link and its connected to Link controller SP1 SP2 SP3 and whenever traffic comes from subnet Ex: 172.20.20./24 it has to go via sp3 and traffic from other subnets has to via SP1 and SP2.can somone provide me some idea about the above scenario.

 

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  • Turn off autolasthop and use static routing?

     

    I don't want to patronise you but the BIG-IP has a feature called autolasthop which means that traffic coming from a device will be sent back to that device. For instance, if you have service provider links via devices A & B, traffic received from device A will be sent back to device A and so on. The BIG-IP stores the layer 2 address with the connection flow. If you turn this feature off then the BIG-IP will use normal IP routing (or gateway pools)

     

  • I assume you are refering to client initiated traffic going outbound, not the other way around yes?

     

  • Thanks for validating that. So, surely the point of the LC (which I'm not familiar with by the way) is to balance across the links?

     

    I know, there's always a reason etc ;) So, I'm not sure how LC works but can you not setup a VS that you point that 172 subnet to, that only uses SP3 and another for everyone else that balances across SP1 and SP2, rather than use an iRule?