Forum Discussion
dennypayne
Jun 17, 2008Employee
Hi Panos,
LTM preserves the client's source IP without SNAT. So if you turn off SNAT and don't get a response back from the server, the most likely explanation is that the servers either do NOT have their default gateway set as the LTM, or they have some other route to get back to the client address (2nd NIC, static route, etc) and are bypassing their default gateway.
You can troubleshoot this by using tcpdump on the LTM's command line:
tcpdump -i host
will show you the traffic flow to and from that particular host, so you can see whether traffic is going to that server from LTM and whether or not it returns. You can use other filters (port, protocol, etc) to refine the tcpdump statement if you need to (type man tcpdump for a list of all the options).
Denny