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JWhitesPro_1928's avatar
JWhitesPro_1928
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Oct 27, 2015

F5 Internal vs External - Different Instances

Just taking a list of opinions here.   Do many of you have a different F5 device (for security reasons) that handles all your external facing traffic and a different one that handles all internal ...
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Brad_Parker's avatar
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No benefit to a single vCMP. You could use route domains to keep you external and internal traffic separated if you choose to collapse them down.

 

JWhitesPro_1928's avatar
JWhitesPro_1928
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Oct 27, 2015
What would be the typical reason for doing the route domains to separate external and internal if we were controlling the traffic flow between the zones already with something like AFM for anything that may be using the F5 as a default gateway?