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Dave_W__178431
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Mar 24, 2015

GTM Wildcard Listener

I'm trying to nail down the concept of the GTM's wildcard listener. Creating a listener (non-wildcard) causes a VS to be created for the listener's IP addresss. This virtual server then becomes anoth...
  • Brad_Parker_139's avatar
    Mar 24, 2015

    Network listeners in both LTM and GTM by default do not participate in ARP. For wildcard/network listeners to work and not participate in ARP, the traffic must be routing through the BigIP for the BigIP to process it. In the GTM perspective you could have your GTM setup as the default gateway for your LDNS servers so when they perform recursion you could cache responses, use iRules, and respond authoritative if you wish.