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Kirk_Bauer_1018
Altostratus
Aug 14, 2007SNAT command and ports
I don't have time at the moment to set up a full test environment for this so I'm hoping for a little help. I have verified that for UDP traffic using the command "snat " will preserve the original ...
Deb_Allen_18
Aug 14, 2007Historic F5 Account
The tuple of {sourceIP sourcePort destIP destPort} must be unique, so for traffic bound for the same pool member at least, the port would definitely be changed.
AFAIK SNAT uses the original source port unless it's already in use, otherwise (regardless of uniqueness on the pool member side of the tuple) chooses another port.
There's really no way to affect the default SNAT port selection behaviour.
HTH
/deb
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