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golfislife13_33
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NimbostratusSNAT/Floating IPs/Masquerade MACs
I am in the middle of replacing a single F5 LTM installation with a dual LTM1600 set up in HA mode.
I would like my servers to use the router as a default gateway but respond directly b...
L4L7_53191Nimbostratus
NimbostratusYou've got it pretty much right: a self and floating IP for each vlan the BigIP pair is connected to. For your virtual servers, use SNAT (you'll have to here or your flows will break unless you do npath - and don't do npath). You can use a snat pool or automap if port exhaustion isn't an issue.
Regarding MAC masq, it's a best practice, so definitely do that if you can.
-Matt
