For more information regarding the security incident at F5, the actions we are taking to address it, and our ongoing efforts to protect our customers, click here.

Forum Discussion

smp_86112's avatar
smp_86112
Icon for Cirrostratus rankCirrostratus
Jun 14, 2011

SNAT Automap, INET Port Exhaustion, and Self-IPs

We have a number of heavily used VIPs which use the SNAT Automap feature. And every once in a while the LTM outputs this log entry:         01010201:2: Inet port exhaustion on (floating_...
config
design
hoolio's avatar
hoolio
Icon for Cirrostratus rankCirrostratus
Jun 14, 2011
I don't remember reading it--I've just never seen it happen in practice. Though I guess it might happen if you don't have a floating self IP on the egress VLAN? You could try testing it to see, but I expect that only the floating self IP would be used if there is one.

 

 

Aaron