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Eric_Stewart_36
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusSNAT Pool - Can't seem to make work
Hi
I have defined a SNAT pool and I have assigned it to a virtual server. However, when I enter the VIP in my browser i cannot make a connection. If I enter the pool server ip it connects. When ...
Kevin_Stewart
Employee
EmployeeThere could be a few things wrong:
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First try the SNAT Automap selection. You wouldn't want to use this in production, but whether or not it works will tell us more about the problem.
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TCPdump on the server side VLAN of the BIG-IP. Here you want to see if any traffic is making its way to the server, and what the IPs are.
tcpdump -lnni [server-side vlan]
The fact that you can access the pool member directly from your client machine implies that you're either on the same network, or have a route to it, and not going through the BIG-IP to get to it. This could either mean that the SNAT configuration is incorrect, or that perhaps you're not making it to the BIG-IP VIP in the first place.
