SNAT Flow Confusion
Hi All,
I'm newish to LTM and one of the areas I'm kinda grey about is SNAT Flow, specifically the flow of traffic, I'm hoping the experts can please help me out :)
This is in a setup where the edge device is a firewall with 2 servers hanging off a directly connected segment which need to be loadbalanced. So I've got my VIP setup with automap and a pool with the servers using their primary IP's listening on port 80.
So am I right in thinking the flow will be:
client request hits VIP IP > request sent to pool > SNAT applied to pool member replacing the primary IP's with the LTM's self IP...If my thinking is correct up to this point then I'm not sure whats next in the flow.
I guess the confusion for me is the flow back to the client from the backend server that's being SNAT'd.
More than likely it's going to a very simple answer that but I'm overthinking, my bad!
Thanks guys