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Chip_Tesch_1839
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Mar 19, 2009

LC balancing inbound and outbound static NAT

I have a situation in which I need to link balance two ISP links for several “inside” firewalls. Servers behind the firewalls initiate traffic outbound to the Internet, through the Big-IP Link Control...
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dennypayne
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Mar 19, 2009
LC should always use SNAT automap for outbound traffic, rather than a NAT. Automap will pick the self-ip to use from the correct ISP space corresponding to each link. It should be applied to your outbound wildcard (0.0.0.0) virtual server(s).

 

 

Denny