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drhawkings_2156
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May 04, 2010

LTM migration for Proxy, Anti-Spam and web servers

Can anyone advise on the configuration of LTM for Proxy, Anti-Spam and web servers?   The objective is to load balance server traffic or active/passive.   Attached is the diagram   The confus...
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Michael_Yates
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May 06, 2010
If you don't have to use SNAT'ing, I wouldn't.

 

 

If the F5 owns the subnets that these devices live on (192.168.1.4 for Anti-Spam and 10.7.2.2 for Proxy server), then you do not need to enable SNAT, and no source translation will be required. That would be the optimal setup.

 

 

If you must use SNAT and you have Applications the require the Client IP Address then you will need to configure X-Forward.