Hi Aidan For sure interested in any solution that keeping the STM performance .... What I'm trying to solve is to give the internet access to this special application , in same time using some of the  Virtual Servers features  Regards ... View more

Thanks Aidan for recommendation 1 and 2 , we shall consider this for sure after checking that every things is Ok . regarding my problem , I'm using right now the IP Forwarding as mentioned by you in point no. 3 , and my special application is already connected to the internet using this feature ... But as I said in my first post , its seems the traffic not passing through the virtual server , then non of the useful STM features can be applied ... For that I'm locking for another way , or the correct way to make the traffic passing via VS  . Many thanks to you for your support . Regards ... View more

Hi Aidan Here under my reply to your questions : Are you using STM installed on Linux or as a Virtual Appliance on a hypervisor?  ESXi 5.1 Do you have one STM, or multiple STM's in a cluster?  One STM Is 172.16.30.1 an IP address of a single STM, or a Traffic IP on the inside interface of your STM? its IP of single STM Why is there a router pictured in your diagram between the "Special Application" servers and the STM eth1 interface? By your IP addressing, they are on the same subnet, so a router is not needed between the two, only a switch.  Sorry for that ,its only switch 1st - Waiting your advice on the above . 2nd - more simpler scenario , what if I used a defecated STM for this special application ? in other words you can ignore the normal application server in the above diagram , what would be your advice ?   Best Regards ... View more

Hello Aidan Just want to thank you for following up my issue , really appreciate it .. I tried your recommendation but its just not working ... What I mean by not working is there is no activity on my Virtual Server , it seems the traffic passed directly to the gateway , not through the VS , and all activity diagrams are zeros ... Only one case I get the traffic passed via VS , its by proxy request (client browser directed to  VS IP:Port) which is not useful for my application . Ok , I will make it very simple , and if I get this work , then I can solve my problem , as shown in the below diagram : I have no problems with the normal application servers ... My special application server need to connect to the internet via STM eth1 , as its the default gateway for the special application , that it ! Its seems simple but I cannot make it work and keeping STM features as well ! Did I missed something ? Regards ... View more

Hi Aidan Yes I know that , but if we use policy based routing , then in this case we don't have the ability to activate the content cache or the the atomizer .. etc. What I need is a solution to use the traffic manager as default gate way through its virtual services , so you still can use the traffic manager useful features ... I hope the experiences admins share with us this information Regards ... View more