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marsmann_58298
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Sep 30, 2008

Advantages and Disadvantages to trunk LTMs

Hi all,     First time poster. Relatively new to F5's. Did some searching but found nothing conclusive so far.     What are the advantages and/or disadvantages with using trunk...
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dennypayne
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Oct 01, 2008
Yes, as citizen_elah says you can use the X-Forwarded-For header in the http profile, assuming that your servers will know how to log that to get the client IP. For protocols other than http there isn't much that can be done for preserving client IP in a SNAT scenario.

 

 

Denny