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rootvikm_79112
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Jun 12, 2007

Can you do port translation on the GTM?

    First off, I'm new F5 products so don't flame me if this is a stupid question. Please feel free to point me to a more appropriate formum or doc location.     I am looking at using a...
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Jun 13, 2007
I haven't worked much with GTM, but as I understand it, GTM provides DNS answers to client queries. The port the client should make a request to isn't provided in a DNS response. There is no concept of ports in DNS. The port is specified by the client in the request to the application. If the client is a browser, the port the client requests is dictated by the port in the hostname (or it defaults to the protocol's default port (http = 80, https = 443, etc). So if the client is a browser, the port is specified in the address the user types or the link they click on.

 

 

If I've missed something, please let me know.

 

 

Aaron