Routed Mode
In routed mode, the ACE acts as a Layer 3 device, and it routes traffic between the servers and the upstream router. ACE is the next hop device for traffic coming from clients and going toward the servers. For the traffic coming from servers, ACE is the default gateway. In this mode, the ACE is routing between the two VLANs; therefore, client-side VLAN and server-side VLAN are on different subnets.
Because the ACE is in the path, all the traffic from the server subnet to the upstream router traverses through the ACE. If servers are sitting on the server-side subnet, for which load balancing is not required, the traffic still goes through the ACE. When the ACE is configured in routed mode and traffic is not matching the VIPs, the ACE ...
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