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Mo_382164
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Jan 25, 2019

Impact of disabling Port and Address Translation for F5

If I have a set of servers behind a specific VIP that are operating fine, but I want to use the action on service down "reselect" and it requires port and address translation to be disabled. what wou...
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KeesvandenBos
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Jan 27, 2019

When you disable address translation the BIG-IP won't translate the virtual server IP address into the pool member address. Disabling this can be use-full if the virtual server and pool member have the same IP address.

 

Disabling port translation does the same as address translation but then for the virtual server listing port. It is used/use-full when your load balancing to a pool with members listening on the any port.

 

Cheers,

 

Kees