F5 Initial Setup Help, Server cannot ping network
Hi,
Apologies I have had my head in whitepapers and trawled Google for hours then I came across this wonderful resource!
I have been thrown in at the deep end, we have purchased an f5bigip2000 with the LTM module and I have been given the task of setting this up from scratch, luckily I have a network engineering background and have worked with cisco's ACE and CSS platforms before so load balancing isn't totally foreign to me .
ISSUE I have a problem, I have dragged all the relevant vlans to the BIGIP and created self IP's for these vlans on the BIGIP. these self IP's are pingable through the network and the F5 has a default route to an SVI on our core network that is reachable (I have pinged this via the shell).
When I change a server (pool members) default gateway to the BIGIP the server looses connectivity and cannot ping the rest of the network, It CAN ping the self IP for its respected vlan on the LTM but nothing past this.
Any ideas, I am struggling with this one!