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Brian_Gibson_30
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Feb 17, 2015

Creating a dynamic one-to-one SNAT pool

We have a problem with an SMB VIP that appears to be NAT related. What we are looking to do is create a SNAT pool in which each new IP address is assigned it's own SNAT address.   Is there any ...
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Brad_Parker
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Feb 17, 2015

You will most likely need to use an iRule. Are you looking to map a /24 to a /24 or something similar? If so, you could write an iRule that can SNAT 10.0.0.x to 192.168.0.x, for example, by just translating the last digit of the address.

 

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Brian_Gibson_30
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Feb 17, 2015
No. Basically we are having a problem in which NAT is confusing our server and dropping connections. Basically it is having trouble with multiple users connecting with the same source IP. So we want to create a pool in which each user will be assigned a unique source IP address so the NAT isn't overloaded.