A BIG-IP Administrator finds the following log entry after a report of user issues connecting to a virtual server: 01010201: 2: Inet port exhaustion on 10.70.110.112 to 192.28.123.250:80 (proto 6) How

Removing the SNAT pool and applying SNAT Automap would likely use the self-IP, which could still experience port exhaustion if not configured with sufficient addresses.

Removing an IP address from the SNAT pool would reduce the total number of available source ports, exacerbating the port exhaustion issue.

Adding more IP addresses to the SNAT pool increases the total number of available source ports that the BIG-IP can use for SNAT connections. Each unique IP address provides a new set of approximately 64,000 source ports, directly alleviating port exhaustion.

Increasing the timeout of SNAT addresses would cause ports to remain occupied for longer, which could worsen port exhaustion rather than resolve it.