What's the role of VIP in loopback interface?
i understand it is used to accept traffic from f5 because f5 does not change destination ip (10.233.203.218) when sending traffic to server.
Why even LB down I'm able to ping 10.233.203.218 (VIP) from outside? Is it not supposed loopback does not accept traffic from outside?
i think it depends on how loopback is configured on server (e.g. arp).
Because everything is on the same network make sense to use Npath?
you can use snatpool or snat automap instead of npath. by the way, why do you want to use npath? is it due to performance issue?
Even with Npath how can I control the outbound traffic if node, LB and server are in the same network: 10.233.203.X?
is there any problem you observe?