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jasonralph_4089
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Dec 08, 2009

Capture IP of Client Traffic

Hello,   I am searching for advise on how I can view the IP of the client that generates the http request. When I run apache server-status on our web servers I am seeing the F5 virtual IP which ...
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hoolio
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Dec 08, 2009
Hi Jason,

 

 

You can enable the XFF option on a custom HTTP profile to log the original client IP LTM sees on Apache. Try searching AskF5.com or these forums for X-Forwarded-For for related info:

 

 

SOL4816: Using the X-Forwarded-For HTTP header to preserve the original client IP address for traffic translated by a SNAT

 

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/4000/800/sol4816.html

 

 

Aaron