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bertrand_9354
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Feb 29, 2012

dynamic SNAT on port exhaustion

Hi,     I have an issue on my architecture. All surf stream is source natted by one IP.   We would like to implement a SNATPool to avoid this issue   I know that SNAT Pool is working in m...
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hoolio
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Feb 29, 2012
Hi Bertrand,

 

 

I don't think you can specify a load balancing algorithm for selecting a SNAT IP from a SNAT pool. You can however, use a hashing of the client IP to ensure the same client IP gets the same SNAT IP each time:

 

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.snat_pool_persistence.ashx

 

 

Aaron