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Jason0
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Feb 09, 2017

Default routes for route domains

I’m standing up a new Big-IP cluster and am trying to use route domains for the first time. Initially there will be two route domains but others may be added in the future. I’m trying to keep everyth...
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Kai_Wilke
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Feb 09, 2017

Hi Jason0,

you example is 100% correct. The RD-sufix needs to be added to the 

Destination
and 
Gateway Address
to make this route available for a given Route Domain.

Note: You can test/troubleshoot the individual routing tables on the command line by using the 

rdexec
command...

[user@hostname:Active:Standalone] ~  rdexec -?
usage: rdexec   []
[user@hostname:Active:Standalone] ~  rdexec 1 traceroute 8.8.8.8
traceroute to 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  switch-mi-01.domain.de (172.25.0.2)  3.398 ms  3.236 ms  3.676 ms
 2  192.168.254.2 (192.168.254.2)  3.817 ms  4.072 ms  4.242 ms^C
[user@hostname:Active:Standalone] ~  rdexec 1 route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
127.1.1.0       *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 tmm
172.25.0.0      *               255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 VLAN_MYVLAN
default         172.25.0.1      0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 VLAN_MYVLAN

Cheers, Kai