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panos_101277
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Jun 17, 2008

Have a series 9 BigIP do switching instead of SNAT

Hi,     I've been trying to find a way to get a series 9 (9.4.4) BigIP to do switching instead of nat so that requests to servers come from the real originating IP and not the load balance...
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dennypayne
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Jun 17, 2008
I'm not sure where you are seeing an option for configuring SNAT on the pool, (other than disabling it), the actual configuration is on the virtual. Unless there's a new option in 9.4.4 that I haven't noticed yet...

 

 

Anyway, you want to make sure there's no global SNAT's defined under the SNAT tab, and then under Advanced on the virtual server SNAT Pool is set to None.

 

 

You don't want to disable address translation though (the virtual still needs to translate the destination address from itself to the pool member). So that should remain checked.

 

 

Then hopefully tcpdump can give you some more clues if that's still not working.

 

 

Denny