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 (192.168.26.0/24) and external (192.168.227.0/24).
In the external we have a standard virtual server (192.168.227.11) with a SMTP pool with two servers in the internal VLAN (192.168.26.11 and 192.168.26.12). We have SNAT Automap disable because we want to keep the original source IP, so SMTP servers have its default gateway on F5 (192.168.26.1). This works OK.
The problem is about outbound traffic. For example, when SMTP server tries to send outbound traffic to Internet or Exchange servers, through F5, it doesn’t work. We know internal servers can reach F5 SMTP internal floating ip (192.168.26.1) by ping, but it seems it doesn´t know what to do with traffic originated on SMTP servers, or where to send it. It also happens with any connection started in the server.
We have tried to configure a 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0:any virtual server forwarding IP enabled on internal VLAN but it doesn’t work. Traffic reaches F5 (we show IN traffic statistics), but doesn’t continue to the external VLAN. We have also tried with a default route too (0.0.0.0/0 -> 192.168.227.1), but it doesn´t work.
Could you help us?
Thank you very much!