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Feb 18, 2014

SMTP Load Balancing without SNAT Outbound traffic problems

Hello,   I’m sorry because this is an issue that it has been reviewed in the forum, but in our case it doesn’t work and we don`t know what is the problem. We have two STMP VLANs, internal (192.168...
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Hello,

 

We finally solved the problem. We configured all of this, but we also need to configure a fastL4 Outbound traffic profile, activating loose initiation and loose close. With this configuration, it worked perfectly.

 

Regards.

 

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Sep 22, 2014
Sure! All you need is to create a virtual server without SNAT (Automap). The virtual IP (selfIP) of the has internnal VLAN has to be the default gateway of the server you want to balance. You have to create a default route pointing to the default gateway of the balancing VLAN (external VLAN). Thereby, the outbounf traffic will know how to get the destination network in outbound traffic. Furthermore, you have to create an outbound virtual server, type Forwarding IP, with 0.0.0.0 destination, and without automap. In this virtual server, you have to configure a fastL4 Protocol Profile. You have to modify the fastL4 profile, and activate Loose Initiation and Loose Close. And that's all.