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rafaelbn_176840
Altocumulus
AltocumulusBIG-IP CGNAT - VLAN CMP Hash
Hello Devs! How is everybody doing?
I'm trying to wrap my head around a requirement for the CGNAT module.
Currently, it's mandatory that, for the CGNAT using PBA LSN pools, that the ingress VLAN ...
rafaelbn
Cirrostratus
CirrostratusAfter digging a little deeper, I found an article explaining the reasoning.
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K54951499
The idea (to my understanding at least) is to optimize the return traffic, kind of pinning the subscriber to the same TMM process. If you don't do that, the returning traffic could be handled by another TMM and both TMM process handling that one subscriber would need to communicate, introducing some delays.
Sorry for asking too early! Cheers! Rafael