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Company_B_88989
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Mar 15, 2017

SNAT amd External Access

I have a virtual server with pool members that are all IPs to google.com. When I type in the IP of the virtual server, the page cannot be displayed.   I am pretty sure this is because the virtual...
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Vijay_E
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Mar 15, 2017

Automap uses the Self-IP address for SNAT. The same Self-IP address is also used for other functions like health-check which means, you may not be able to utilize the 65K connections that are possible. If you can, use a SNAT Pool separately. If you think the number of connections created by Self-IP on the F5 is way too low, you can use automap.