For this application, if you are using an L4 service, it is automatically transparent. When using transparency, the following steps must be followed:

If clients are on the same subnet as the Real Server, returning traffic to the LoadMaster is instead sent to the client. This is asymmetric routing and causes the client to drop the connection because it is expecting it from the LoadMaster, not the Real Server. The diagram below shows the flow of traffic when this rule is not followed.

If the Real Servers' default gateway is not set to be the LoadMaster’s interface (the shared IP if the LoadMasters are in HA), traffic returning to the LoadMaster is instead sent to the gateway. This is asymmetric routing and causes the connection to drop because the connection should be sent from the LoadMaster, not the Real Server. The diagram below shows the flow of traffic when this rule is not followed.