VIP and services in the same network

[alex.alexander]

Hello,

In my network I have some servers that need to access an application on another server. In order to grant redundancy and load balancing I would like to install a second server. As the servers that act as clients and the servers that act as server are in the same network, I would like to know if it is possible to configure the VIP and the services IP addresses in the same network ?

Thanks in advance for any answer.

Alex

[lynchp]

Alex,

Yes you can have the services and vips in the same subnet. The key thing you must remember is that the CSS must see the incoming and outgoing packets from the servers. The most successful/safe way is have the servers pluged directly into the CSS.

Cheers

Phil

[Gilles Dufour]

yes you can do this .

However you need to take extra care to make sure traffic is flowing through the CSS.

To do so, you need to configure a "group" to nat the client source ip address or you can plug the devices directly in the CSS as mentioned by Phil.

Hope this help.

Gilles.