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JCMATTOS_41723
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Dec 07, 2007

SNAT Global IP access?

Hi all we have an LTM 9.4x and we would like to attempt a Proof-Of-Concept with the BigIP to test loadbalancing external public IP's. This may seem unusual at first but again this is a POC. We have an...
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James_Thomson
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Dec 10, 2007
When testing, did you add an entry to your testing machine's host database? You'll want to add a line pointing www.f5.com to 172.x.x.x so that when you type in f5.com, it sends you to the vip. Many websites require a host header to be sent to accept the traffic, so you can't send traffic to an IP address that doesn't match what they expect as a host header.