I have a scenario which is fairly common - certain servers are accessed from the internet via a Load Balancer, and since seeing true client IP is a requirement, the return traffic path must go back through the load balancer. However, I do not want to route all traffic via the load balancer for obvious performance reasons. Internal traffic should be routed directly by the Layer 3 switch, which has a default route of a Firewall.
My plan is to use a VRF for the load balancer and any applicable servers, which works fine. But now I need to join the VRF's routing table with the switch's GRT (global routing table) so that internal traffic works. What is the best way to do this? For scalability reasons I'd like to avoid static routes and I see many examples using BGP, but in this case it seems overkill since everything is on a single logical switch. Can I use OSPF instead? Or a different method? The Supervisors will be 2Ts, so IOS 15.0 will likely be running.
