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Naturally that is true for the forwarding Virtual Server (i.e., one may not apply an http profile to it), but it turns out that -- while it may seem somewhat counter-intuitive -- that assertion is not correct for Standard Virtual Servers. If there is no pool and (destination) Address Translation is disabled, it will forward using BIG-IP's normal routing (I just verified on 11.5.3 to make sure I was remembering correctly (: ). If you wanted to exert more control over the route direction, you may create a pool that contains gateways (routers) and still disable (destination) Address Translation. That will have the same effect (but use the gateways' routing rather than BIG-IP).
But a fair point, in any case. I was not explicit about using a Standard VS, and that is definitely confusing now that I'm reading back through my posts.