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sstafford
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Dec 15, 2009

Irules and Internet connections for Servers with non-routable IP addresses

Hi all,     I have a situation I'm trying to address via an iRule on the BigIP, and wanted to see what you think.     We have an internal vlan routed by an F5 that consists of pr...
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hoolio
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Dec 15, 2009
You'll need something between the servers (acting as clients) and the internet to perform source address translation. Is the existing VIP defined as 0.0.0.0:0? Could you use the existing forwarding network VIP, but use an iRule to selectively enable SNAT for non-local subnets (or disable SNAT for local subnets)?

 

 

To support active FTP, you'll need to configure a custom FTP-only 0.0.0.0 VIP.

 

 

Aaron