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newbie
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Jul 23, 2020

Vip SNAT

I am looking at an iRule that uses the "snat VIPsnat" statement. Is this statement saying to use the VIP as the source address for the SNAT translation?   Thanks.
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ArvinF
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Jul 24, 2020

from https://clouddocs.f5.com/api/irules/snat.html

 

snat <addr> [<port>] | none | automapΒΆ

  • Causes the system to assign the specified translation address to the serverside connection.

 

"snat VIPsnat" - if the "VIPsnat" is an IP address of a VIP, then yes, the VIP's virtual address will be used as the source IP towards the serverside (during loadbalancing)