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Matt_D_109285
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May 05, 2009

Load Balance Outbound Connections

I have a Big-IP v. 4.5   I used to have it load balance inbound traffic for a website. I just erased the config and need to use it to load balance outbound SMTP connections. Pretty simple setup...
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Matt_D_109285
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May 12, 2009
Right now I am open to advice on best practices. The topology I was using was quite simple.

 

Ex.

 

Mail Client: 10.0.0.10

 

F5 Big IP: 10.0.0.20

 

SMTP Servers: 10.0.0.21-25

 

The SMTP Servers are NAT'd thru the firewall and have public addresses. The topology was flat, I had just created a pool with the SMTP servers and assigned it an IP address on the F5. I pointed the Mail Client to the F5 as the SMTP server. The SMTP servers do not require authentication and this will strictly be for outbound email.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

MAtt