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snester23
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May 23, 2019

Allowing source IPs to be visible behind a BIG-IP

We have a big-IP version BIG-IP 14.1.0.3 Build 0.0.6 Point Release 3 with a few services running on it. One of the services takes in telemetry data from 100 client devices, passes through the BIG-IP ...
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Hamish
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May 23, 2019

The support engineer is correct. However that assumes that the BigIP will actually act as the default gateway.

 

You have several choices

  • Insert host routes to the BigIP for the clients instead of default gateway
  • Use policy routing and only route traffic to the clients FROM tyhe service port via the BigIP
  • Actually turn the BigIP into your default gateway

 

That's assuming you're not picking up the original IP via X-Forwarded-For headers or something that you haven't enabled.