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moulingi_138795
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Dec 31, 2013

SNAT and Forwarding (IP) virtual servers

Hi   In following topology:   (Network) ==> Firewall ==> LTM ==> Servers   I've setup a 'forwarding (IP)' virtual server on the LTM to handle at once Servers=>Network traffic and Network=>Se...
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moulingi_138795
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Dec 31, 2013

Snat is configured by snat lists (1 entry per real server so we can still find in servers log which was the original client, knowing the translation matrix).

 

If I do setup snat at 'Virtual server' level, Snat will then apply for all connections hitting that VIP... So I will loose the real clients IP addresses in servers logs... right ?