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Allwyn_Mascaren's avatar
Oct 15, 2017

LTM Websense loadbalancing VIP resets connection

The traffic flow for this connection is:

DMZ(on firewall) 10.0.0.0/24 range -> hits a IP 192.168.1.x -> 
SRC NAT(outgoing interface of the fw) and DST NAT (to VIP:8080) -> 
NO AUTO MAP, Persistence used -> Loadbalanced across websense pool -> 
reply goes back the same interface of the fw which was used for the src NAT IP. 

In the pcaps from LTM, the VIP resets the connection after a GET from the src NATTED IP. And the reset from the LTM only says "TCP retrasmission timeout".

From read this thread: https://devcentral.f5.com/questions/load-balancing-web-proxy-servers

It seems that the TCP profile low time out value could be as issue here but I'm not sure and not sure how to test this.

On another note I feel the SRC NATTED address on the fw interface is exhausting its limit of 64k ports and hence the LTM is failing to respond in time.

What troubleshooting approach can I go to from here. Just started with f5s.

Thanks.

  • The backend websense node just didnt have a route back to the fw's natted IP address and so it was never responding, once that was added the issue is solved now.

     

  • The backend websense node just didnt have a route back to the fw's natted IP address and so it was never responding, once that was added the issue is solved now.

     

  • It sounds to me that you have an asymmetric traffic path with a virtual that expects traffic to return through the LTM.

     

    If you want to use an asymmetric traffic path, you need to use n-Path routing which requires a Performance Layer-4 virtual with a FastL4 profile implementing Loose Initiation/Loose Close

     

    Alternatively, to use a Standard virtual, traffic must return to the LTM by using a SNAT/SNAT Automap configuration.