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rafaelbn_176840
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Oct 05, 2017

Auto Last Hop

Hello guys! How's everybody doing?! Hopefully awesome!   I'm trying to understand the implications of auto last hop on my environment. My question is:   What would happen if after a connection ...
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Lee_Sutcliffe
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Oct 05, 2017

Connections are based on TCP/UDP and IP address sockets. The MAC address used in auto last hop is used to make routing decisions without the need for having a route in the routing table.

 

So to answer your question, providing the source IP is the same, the connection will remain in the table.