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steph_01_143006
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Jul 10, 2014

Floating IP not needed if SNAT used

Hello,   I implemented 2 BIG-IP active/active with two traffic-groups. The VS are links to SNAT pool, so the floating IP is not needed, the servers in pool communicate with SNAT IP not with floati...
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steph_01_143006
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Jul 11, 2014

Hello, thank you for your answers.

 

The SNAT Automap feature use floating IP, but SNAT pool not because the IPs are defined into the SNAT pool.

 

So I have only setup MAC masquerading in traffic group for sending gratuitous ARP during the failover. No floating self IP is enabled. I'm continuous to test my design in order to check if all is ok, currently it seems to work properly.

 

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