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Carlos_123412
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Oct 23, 2015

Strange SNAT IP address behaviour

Hello everyone,   Recently we've discovered a weird behaviour on our BIG-IP system. We are currently running version 11.5.1 on an 8950 Active/Passive HA pair.   We have detected that a couple o...
application delivery
LTM
management
network
snat
snat pool
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Jinshu
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Oct 27, 2015

No.. You are defining a pool for SNAT and it will be reachable from the network. It is default behavior of F5 to respond back as it might cause problems if the connection got dropped.

 

There are situations for recieve the traffic on SNAT pool also (like AFM configuration with single route domain).

 

Hope this helps.

 

-Jinshu