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Ray_Sbrusch_941
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Oct 28, 2009

Preserving Client IP address for SMTP traffic

I know this topic has been discussed in the forums multiple times, but I never found implementation details which dont' require iRules or putting the BigIP in bridging mode.     I would li...
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hooleylist
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Oct 28, 2009
It sounds like you have the configuration set up correctly to not do source address translation on LTM. Does it work if a real client tries to connect to the SMTP servers via the VIP?

 

 

I'd guess the SMTP server is closing the connection before you have a chance to send any data. You can get around this issue by using netcat from the LTM command line:

 

 

echo "my smtp commands" | nc VIP_IP VIP_PORT

 

 

Also, clients on the same subnet as the SMTP servers would not work as the SMTP servers would respond back directly to the clients--not to LTM.

 

 

Aaron