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dichotomouse
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusDoes anyone know why a NAT can't share a public IP address with a VS?
I've read and heard this is is not allowed but, it is possible to save such a config and I haven't seen any problems with the servers that I have done it on.
The reason I have used it is: we need som...
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Cirrocumulus
CirrocumulusI think that is a viable solution to have a NAT address and VIP address the same. Note that inbound traffic will prefer the VIP (see Order of Preference
A NAT is an inbound and outbound listener. A SNAT is an outbound listener and can't receive traffic on the translation address, hence why it's called Secure NAT.
Hope this makes sense.
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