F5 Internal Server can't access internet without NAT

Haitham,

You will need to translate the internal server IP address behind a publicly accessible IP of some sort at some point. I think the F5 engineer recommended not using NAT because NAT is a one-to-one mapping of an internal address and a translation address, so it doesn't scale very well. SNATs, on the other hand, can be a many to one translation, so you could specify a network range as the origin and then a single translated address. Hopefully this article helps: Nats and Snats.

You could create the SNAT as the external virtual server address I believe.

Hope this helps,

N