Liquid_22_54866
May 15, 2007Nimbostratus
Load Balancing Question
Hi All,
The company I work for recently inherited a F5-BIG-LTM-1500 v.9.1.2. We do have a support contract but I thought I would ask this question here first as we are having issues in getting our environment setup.
It's a basic configuration, or so I think. We want to load balance 3 servers running IIS 6. The F5 is on the same network segment, a DMZ, as the servers to be load balanced, which all are attached to a switch. The management interface of the F5 is on a different network segment however.
I have created the nodes, a pool, and a virtual server. We have 1 VLAN created with a self-ip, all of which is on the DMZ subnet, 192.168.199.x / 24.
One question is on the servers where should the default gateway point? To the self-ip or the router?
The traffic flow is as follows:
--> ---> --->
Attached to the :
I've read the deployment docs in full but still feel I'm missing something.
I'd appreciate any further insight anyone could offer.