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Agathe_309970's avatar
Agathe_309970
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Feb 09, 2018

Transparent load balancing without F5 as a gateway

Hi everybody,   I search if one think is possible.   I have scheme like that :   Client IP ----> F5 VS IP ----> Servers IP   198.18.0.1 ----> 192.0.2.1:3128 ...
application delivery
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LTM
Kevin_K_51432's avatar
Kevin_K_51432
Historic F5 Account

Greetings,

 

This sounds like a forwarding virtual server. The section "Emulating stateless IP routing with BIG-IP LTM forwarding virtual servers" discusses this in more detail:

 

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K7595

 

Hope this is helpful!

 

Kevin

 

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Kevin_K_51432
Historic F5 Account
Feb 09, 2018

iRules will work, provided you don't attempt to inspect or modify packets above layer 3.

 

The pool question's not entirely clear to me.

 

Thanks!

 

Kevin