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solmon_191529
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Mar 10, 2015

Real Ip address for non http servers

Hi Team   I have a situation which i am try to solve , basically i have non-http service hosted behind my load balancers here. currently the servers are not in a vlan attached to f5 , so using SN...
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mhite_60883
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Mar 10, 2015

Sounds like you'll have to look at DSR (direct server return) or VXLAN.

 

DSR over a routed network:

 

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/ltm-implementations-11-1-0/6.html

 

VXLAN:

 

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/tmos-implementations-11-4-0/10.html

 

It's also possible to implement "proxy-protocol" using an iRule (I have done it in the past). Your application developers would need to accomodate this on the server side. See:

 

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/elastic-load-balancing-adds-support-for-proxy-protocol/

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/questions/proxy-protocol-irule-implementation