self IP address
Hello,
I am under so much of confusion right now. Hope someone can help me.
I got the following extract from http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/tmos_management_guide_10_1/tmos_intro.html1023688.
"Each VLAN you create has its own self IP address. The BIG-IP system uses this address as the source IP address when sending requests to hosts in a VLAN, and hosts in a VLAN use this IP address as the destination IP address when sending responses to the BIG-IP system."
But from all the f5 training I did from the online F5 university and in person, I learnt that the F5 uses the original client address as the source IP address when sending requests to hosts in the internal vlan, unless SNATing or NATing has been configured. The self IP address is just the default gateway for hosts on that vlan. Am I right?