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Steele6599_8766
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Mar 25, 2014

SMTP load balancing with Exchange 2010

So I setup the load balancing on our F5 but now have an issue with the receive connectors.. in the past we had different receive connectors on our Hub Transport for different external users. Depend...
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Steele6599_8766
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Mar 25, 2014

Thanks all for your response, it has been almost 4 years since I last worked with an F5. currently "Source Address Translation" is set to "Auto Map" and other choices are "None" and "SNAT". So should I choose "none"?

 

Thanks again.

 

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Mar 25, 2014
If you don't use SNAT, the hub transport servers will have to have a route back to the clients through the BIG-IP, which is probably not the case. SNAT auto map should work as long as you build the connector in Exchange with the SNAT address of the BIG-IP.