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Coso_17543
Mar 14, 2011Nimbostratus
BigIp source addresses
hi all,
I don't know if this is an easy question but it's a bit urgent for me.
We need to balance 2 servers under a VIP for some services, telnet and FTP included.
The po...
Chris_Miller
Mar 14, 2011Altostratus
Address translation enables LTM to translate the destination address of the packet. So, if you're using a normal VIP, you need address translation so LTM can translate the destination address to the pool member's IP.
SNAT can be more secure and can make routing easier but as you're seeing, applications that can't derive source ip address from header information might not work as hoped.
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