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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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Vijay_E
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Jan 28, 2019

Why do you have to disable port/IP translation in order to use "reselect" for action on service down ? I have used "reselect" plenty of times without disabling IP/Port translation. If you disable IP/Port translation, connection from F5 to pool member may fail depending on the configuration.