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Carlande_Desarm
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Jan 26, 2018

VS vs NFS / NAT vs SNAT

Hello all,

 

anyone has a comment when it comes to NFVS vs VS? what is the precedence order for VS, NAT, SNAT, NFVS please?

 

Please help clarifying the correct statement for these 3 points. Thanks.

 

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  • Chris_Grant's avatar
    Chris_Grant
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    Jan 26, 2018

    I would point out that the second link is an official F5 Solution article, and while they are occasionally wrong, it is very unusual. The first link is someone's best estimate, which is awesome, but not official. The KB article is correct:

     

    Virtual Servers trump NATs. More specific Virtual Servers trump less specific virtual servers: 10.10.10.1:80 trumps 10.10.10.1:* NAT trumps SNAT More specific SNAT trumps less specific SNAT

     

    So from first to last:

     

    Virtual Servers (Specific) -> Virtual Server (General) -> NAT -> SNAT (Specific) -> SNAT (General)