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Abhishek_Mittal's avatar
Abhishek_Mittal
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Sep 13, 2016

AD DC's behind F5 + SNAT

We have AD DC's behind F5 and we are using SNAT for this setup.   Issue: Domain controller always see SNAT IP as client IP address. DC team are unable to see actual client IP address, if they want...
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Josiah_39459
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Sep 13, 2016

From the way you ask the question, it is not clear. Do you mean without disabling SNAT? Becuase it seems like disabling SNAT is the best way to see the users ip...

 

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Abhishek_Mittal
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Sep 13, 2016

If we will disable the SNAT, Will it not do Asymmetric routing. As far as I know, SNAT we use in F5 to prevent asymmetric routing. (if F5 and Servers are not in same subnet)