SNAT = Secure NAt or SNAT = Source NAT ????
http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/ltm_configuration_guide_10_0_0/ltm_snat.html1203505
States that:
secure network address translation (SNAT)
translates the source IP address within a connection to a BIG-IP system
IP address that you define. The destination node then uses that new
source address as its destination address when responding to the
request.
SNATs ensure that server nodes always send responses back through the BIG-IP system, when the servers default route would not normally do so. Because a SNAT causes the server to send the response back through the BIG-IP system, the client sees that the response came from the address to which the client sent the request, and consequently accepts the response.
SNATs ensure that the internal IP address of the server node remains hidden to an external host when the server initiates a connection to that host."
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And then this F5 document:
http://www.f5networks.nl/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/bigip9_4config/BIGIP_LTM_CONFIG_GD_9_4-14-1.html
"A SNAT is an object that maps an original client IP address (that is, a source IP address) to a translation address that you choose. Thus, a SNAT causes the BIG-IP system to translate the source IP address of an incoming packet to an address that you specify. The purpose of a SNAT is simple: to ensure that the target server sends its response back through the BIG-IP system rather than to the original client IP address directly.
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Because the purpose of a SNAT is simply to change the source IP address of incoming packets, the term secure network address translation is a slight misnomer. A better way to define the SNAT acronym would be source network address translation, or source NAT."
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Now im lost, for example here:
pool p.test {
snat disable
}
What this SNAT on the pool does ?? its for the client (incoming) or for the server node (outgoing) or for both ??
Thanks