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rofe_78734
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Jan 20, 2012

Packet flow - order of NAT, SNAT, routing etc.

Hi,     I am new to F5 LTM, and is looking for some documentation (diagram) on the packet flow; how and in which order packets are processed in regards to NAT, SNAT, routing etc. from when a pac...
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What_Lies_Bene1
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Dec 02, 2012
OK, I've come up with the following based on that article, I'll try and add a bit more later if I can; 


VS’s – higher precedence on address, not port;
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(From v9.4 disabled by default: When the bigpipe db TM.ContinueMatching variable is set to true, BIG-IP LTM will check if another virtual server is available to handle a request if the higher precedence virtual server is down or disabled.)

The most specific takes precedence;
   SNAT
   NAT