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andy_12_5042
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May 10, 2011

LTM Bridge Versus Route Mode

I cant seem to find any good documents on the specific design of these 2 options with the LTM. I thought I understood both as I have been working for several years on F5's and have had 2 separate type...
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andy_12_5042
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May 10, 2011
Am I correct that node originated traffic (non-load balanced) would require a forwarding server to handle the outbound nat? I believe without this , for example if you assigned a snat pool at the vip level, the LB return traffic from server to client would work fine but server(LTM node) orginated traffic would not be nat'd outbound?