Are open NAT connections maintained upon failover?

since nat is stateless, i think we don't need mirroring.

 

 

i tested on 10.2.0. SSH and FTP survived after failing over. I didn't use mac masquerade.

 

 

BIG-IP Version 10.2.0 1707.0

 

Final Edition

 

vlan external {

 

tag 4093

 

interfaces 1.1

 

}

 

vlan internal {

 

tag 4094

 

interfaces 1.3

 

}

 

self 10.10.72.50 {

 

netmask 255.255.0.0

 

vlan internal

 

allow default

 

}

 

self 10.10.72.55 {

 

netmask 255.255.0.0

 

unit 1

 

floating enable

 

vlan internal

 

allow default

 

}

 

self 172.28.17.50 {

 

netmask 255.255.255.0

 

vlan external

 

}

 

nat 10.10.70.110 to 172.28.17.55 {

 

}

 

[root@bigip01:Active] config b virtual list

 

No Virtual Servers were found.

 

 

[root@bigip01:Active] config b snat list

 

No SNATs were found.