The Power of Source Address

Way back in TMOS v11.3, the “Source Address” field was added to the configurable items on a Virtual Server.  As you probably know, the Source Address specifies an IP address or network from which the...
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Jan 09, 2018

Hi John,

 

As usual very interesting article, never considered using VS with Source Address set instead of SNAT (anyway I am trying to avoid SNAT or NAT at all).

 

Just curious - is that possible to enter more than one subnet in Source Address - I am pretty sure it's not possible but just to be sure. If not why it was implemented like that - being able to add non contiguous IP ranges would be nice.

 

I guess only way to do that is:

 

  • iRule
  • Local Traffic Policy
  • AFM rule or policy

Piotr