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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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Carlande_Desarm
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Jan 12, 2018

Hi guys, somewhere in the documentations it is said that SNAT is preferred over NAT and somewhere else it mentions reversely that NAT is preferred over SNAT... like in this article: https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K9038

 

which point is correct then? please clarify.