Load balancing within the same ACE across two different contexts residing on the same vlan

[jerilyn.montoya]

I'm working on a design that requires traffic be sent to a different context in the same ACE. The question I have is can this be done when both reside on the same VLAN. Would the traffic in this case be handled at layer 2 instead of layer 7. Would I have to create a seperate subnet in order to provide loadbalancing?

|__________________|
|   | vlan 5         |         |
    |                  |
    |                  |
Context A        |
                       |
                       |
                    Context B

Thanks, Jerilyn

[Surya ARBY]

by design, two contexts on the same box in the same vlan can't communicate. You have to use an external L3 device.

A workaround may be to use two diferent vlans and then bridge between them with a loopback cable.