SNAT vs Inline in high performance scenario
We are thinking about moving from SNAT to Inline Source Address Translation (we can control default gateway of the pool nodes either way) due port exhaustion and "general" feeling that this is much faster way to terminate HTTP/HTTPS VPS. Port exhaustion was addressed with adding more IPs to the SNAT Pool list, but expanding it with more and more IPs is just not a elegant solution. Peak traffic is around 200K/s of small http/https requests. Thus we are wondering about should we go with inline or not? Removing one iRule (x-forward) would be enough for small speed improvements, but what are others? TIA!