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tux143
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Apr 13, 2020

SNAT pool Inet port exhaustion

We are running XMPP application and we have 500k users so in short 500k TCP persistent connection and total 4 XMPP servers, based on math i created 15 ips SNAT pool (assuming 15 ipaddress are enough ...
application delivery
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