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randyw_75267
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Mar 21, 2008

NAT/SNAT + routing order of operations

Hi folks,     Very new to F5, and trying to get a handle on some of the order of operations for traffic flow types. Specifically, I'm curious to see how layer 3 routing is handled by BigIP devic...
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The_Bhattman
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Mar 21, 2008
NAT, SNAT and standard routing are all happening at Layer 3. I think it's reasonable to postulate that standard routing is looked at first then SNAT then NAT. The reason why SNAT over NAT is because F5 seems to be place more emphasis on it.

 

 

Alas the experts can tell you for sure.