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coda6_52611
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May 12, 2010

SMTP, Client IP Preservation and multiple Virtual Servers

I understand that to preserve the source IP address of an SMTP client I need to turn off SNAT and have the gateway of the Exchange servers set to the virtual servers IP.     BUT, I have multipl...
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hoolio
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May 13, 2010
Hi Coda,

 

 

If you point the servers default gateway to the LTM floating self on their VLAN it should work fine without SNAT. The servers will respond to the original client IP address but use the MAC address associated with the LTM floating self IP to send the responses.

 

 

Aaron