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mikeshimkus_111
Sep 06, 2012Historic F5 Account
Robert, the Edge servers really should have public IP addresses and you should not use SNAT on the LTM. That makes it possible for the Edge servers to set up direct sessions between external clients. If you SNAT, the clients' real IP addresses will be obscured and so the Edge servers will need to proxy all those connections.
The answer to the second question, if I understand it, is that you can have the Edge server interfaces and Edge virtual servers on the same network segment, and use the public self-IP address of the BIG-IP as the gateway for outbound traffic from your Edge servers.
Does that help?
Mike