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AnkushP_222309
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Dec 30, 2015

Return traffic via F5 when snat is none

We have configured a UDP virtual server where we have kept SNAT as NONE since as per our requirement client ip should be visible to server. But while responding server is replying directly to client ...
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Dec 30, 2015

If your pool members on the backend are linux, I have a solution which creates a "conditional bigip gateway" fully exposing the client IP address which is helpful when youre doing some sort of traffic for which you cannot inject headers via an iRule. You can see that here:

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/codeshare/kill-snat-automap

 

The doc spells out the requirements...and no it does not require the bigip to be the default gateway of the given pool member.