IOS SLB and FWSM

brian.oflynn · ‎06-21-2007

Hi, this may be a silly question but is there any problem with configuring IOS SLB on a 6509 which also has a FWSM module in it and the Servers being load balanced are behind the FWSM?

owillins · ‎06-27-2007

There is no issues in configuring IOS SLB in this case

rseiler · ‎09-05-2007

The only thing to consider is that by FWSM, you most likely will be running multiple VRFs on the switch and IOS-SLB has some limitations regarding VRF.

IOS-SLB probes are sent to the global routing table (VRF default) and you will need to 'no advertise' and add static routes to null0 to the VRF for the virtual IPs.

Other than that, IOS-SLB works fine with the FWSM and VRF...