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Daniel_Ao_10370
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Apr 23, 2009

about SNAT and NAT

Hello, everybody. I am new to BIGIP. I don't know the differece between SNAT and NAT. I see there are SNAT and NAT option in the pool and virtual servers. When should the SNAT be used and when should...
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hoolio
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Apr 29, 2009
What you're seeing is expected. The checkbox for Address translation on the virtual server refers to destination address translation. If you have a network virtual server (destination is not a specific host) you would not want to translate the destination address to the selected pool member's IP address.

 

 

Aaron