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Jliz_44390
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Jul 27, 2007

Matching Source and Destination for NAT

I've let this simple problem drive me nuts now for a day and half and I've yet to find the solution.     I'm trying to NAT when a request is made from a server behind the LB to a VIP on the same...
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hoolio
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Jul 31, 2007
You could pass traffic through the BIG-IP more programmatically by creating a forwarding IP virtual server with a fastL4 profile. You can then conditionally forward requests based on source IP or network and/or destination IP or network.

 

 

Here's an example: Click here

 

 

If that's overkill for your requirements, you could trim out the classes and just forward based on IP or network using the IP::addr command (Click here).

 

 

Also, you can apply source address translation to a specific connection with the snat command (http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/snat.html).

 

 

Aaron