BIG-IP LTM Processing Traffic Technology | BIG-IP LTM Processing Traffic

BIG-IP LTM  Processing Traffic Technology

Note:- Node is an supply a IP address

Pool member :- It is a combination of IP address and Port. It other words, a pool member represents the service to which BIG-IP will direct traffic.

Pool :- A grouping of pool members is known as pool. All pool members generally host the same content. Pool member do not have to the listing on same port. They can be on the same IP address and different ports. Generally clients do not connect directly to pool members.

Virtual Server :- The virtual server gives every thing together on BIG-IP. Like pool members, virtual servers typically contain both an IP address and Port. Each virtual server is often called a “Listener” as it is listening for traffic destined to its particular IP address and port combination.

IP address + Service (Port)
Combination

Listens for and manages traffic

BIG-IP is default deny device. Therefore, it is important to realize that without configuring a listener such as virtual server, BIG-IP process no client traffic.

Typically, you associate virtual server with a pool and BIG-IP distributes the traffic across pool.