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Bubbagump_12531
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Sep 16, 2014

Automap SNAT and port exhaustion

We are currently using Automap SNAT in our environment and I am trying to design for a large increase in connections. Can we add to the available port space available for automap SNAT simply by addin...
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pete_71470's avatar
pete_71470
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Sep 16, 2014

With SNAT pools you decide which virtual uses which pools. With an extra floating self-ip in the egress vlan, the entire vlan is affected. This might not matter in your deployment. Some nodes don't behave well (Exchange, for example) to having their source-ip change during their sessions so in this case having extra floats could causes surprises down the road.

 

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    nathe
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    Sep 17, 2014
    Thanks Pete. Been offline for a while. Couldn't have said it any better.