F5 Networks, Inc. is a multinational American company which specializes in Application Delivery Networking (ADN) technology that
optimizes the delivery of network-based applications and the security, performance, availability of servers, data storage devices, and
other network resources.
Priority groups: default is Group 0. Incase all web pool member servers are overloaded, we can bring a FTP server
to as a a web server. In this case, the ftp server will have low priority for web traffic compared to web server.
Fallback host: If all members of pool fails, redirect it to http failed, deliver a nice message for the users to improve
user experience.
Logs: Everything related to logs will be in the /var/log directory.
"A secure network address translation (SNAT) translates the source IP address within a connection to a BIG-IP system IP
address that you define. The destination node then uses that new source address as its destination address when
responding to the request.
For inbound connections, that is, connections initiated by a client node, SNATs ensure that server nodes always send
responses back through the BIG-IP system, when the servers default route would not normally do so. Because a SNAT
causes the server to send the response back through the BIG-IP system, the client sees that the response came from the
address to which the client sent the request, and consequently accepts the response.
For outbound connections, that is, connections initiated by a server node, SNATs ensure that the internal IP address of the
server node remains hidden to an external host when the server initiates a connection to that host.
Create a pool:
Floating addresses are always used before interface addresses. In Auto map, F5 has full control in assigning the
destination IP addresses.
NAT 1:1 To administer each of the servers individually i.e. management translation
SNAT: X:Y For servers to go to internet may be like one to many
NAT configuration:
1) Setup self IP addresses.
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