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L4L7_53191
Feb 21, 2011Nimbostratus
To me, the biggies are (in favor of specific SNAT vs. Automap):
1) You can be much more flexible regarding ephemeral port exhaustion.
2) It helps reduce confusion when you're troubleshooting.
3) You can tune the timeout values on a snat pool, unlike automap.
Also, CMP can complicate the ephemeral port exhaustion issues, and some folks out there consider it to be best practice to setup a 1:1 mapping between the Virtual Server and a dedicated SNAT pool.
-Matt