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Joe_Willis_4776
Sep 23, 2008Nimbostratus
Thank you both for your replies; great information on how SNAT taxes (or rather, how it does not at all) the LTM; we have no where near 64k connections/second, so I think we should be in good shape.
On the client IP: Yep, already have thought of that and plan to do exactly what you are talking about. We actually have to do it further up stream as all traffic that flow to the application VIPS come from a pair of Web reverse proxy server (Apache). So, as it stands now, in the application server logs you only ever see the reverse proxy IPs. We'll configure and assign a proper HTTP profile to the front facing VIPs that tie to DNS and that feed the traffic to the reverse proxy servers (and configure Apache accordingly).
In general, the flow is CLIENT -> VIP (ties to DNS) -> Reverse Proxy -> VIP (application) -> application server -> database server.
Thanks again for your help.
Joe