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Karim_51672
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Jul 09, 2008

Remote_addr using SNAT

I am using SNAT and need the actual remote (client) address to show up on the server in "remote_addr" field. Instead it always shows up as BIG-IP's address. I have the x-forwarded working but it's onl...
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hooleylist
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Jul 09, 2008
You're correct. You'd either need to change the app to read the XFF header instead of the REMOTE_ADDR CGI variable or change the routing so that you can disable SNAT on LTM and still ensure responses to the client return through LTM.

 

 

Aaron