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Jose_Charpentie
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Aug 24, 2015

Use VIP address as source

Hello everyone,   How can I allow the VIP IP as a source when the Pool Member iniciates the connection on a specific port? I tried with a NAT but it will NAT all the traffic I need only to NAT wi...
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Kevin_Stewart
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Aug 24, 2015

Can you please elaborate? A NAT is going to be a simple destination translation from one (origin) IP to another, while a SNAT changes the source. Why would you want to use the VIP address as the source to the server - when it is otherwise the destination on the client side?