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John_K_375235's avatar
John_K_375235
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Oct 23, 2018

How do I source an ICMP ping echo from virtual server IP?

I have a virtual server on an LTM with an IP of 10.5.42.115. It is communicating over an IP sec VPN tunnel to a customer in AWS. The VIP is the only host in the encryption domain (SA) on our side. AW...
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rob_carr's avatar
rob_carr
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Oct 24, 2018

The ping utility doesn't seem to like virtual server addresses or floating self IP addresses when using the '-I' flag, so I don't think you can -directly- generate ICMP traffic from an F5 using a virtual server address.

 

I think you can create a forwarding virtual server, and apply a SNAT to the traffic handled by the virtual server, where the source translation address is the desired virtual server address. Then you just need something 'behind' the F5 to generate the ICMP traffic.

 

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K7366