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Shakeeb_174352
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Dec 11, 2014
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'clone pool' for security functions

Dear All,   There is a need to mirror traffic to a security appliance and there is a feature in F5 called ‘Clone Pool’ that we think we might be able to leverage. For ingress traffic, it might be ...
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    Vitaliy_Savrans
    Dec 11, 2014

    Hi,

     

    Clone pools can be configured to copy client-side traffic, server-side traffic, or both. A client-side clone pool causes the virtual server to replicate client-side traffic (prior to address translation) to the clone pool member. A server-side clone pool causes the virtual server to replicate server-side traffic (after address translation) to the clone pool member.

     

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Vitaliy_Savrans
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Hi,

 

Clone pools can be configured to copy client-side traffic, server-side traffic, or both. A client-side clone pool causes the virtual server to replicate client-side traffic (prior to address translation) to the clone pool member. A server-side clone pool causes the virtual server to replicate server-side traffic (after address translation) to the clone pool member.

 

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Shakeeb_174352
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Dec 12, 2014
Thanks Vitaliy. Could you also point me to the server-side clone pool configuration details