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ssadoglu_207917
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Oct 07, 2015

F5 BIG IP clone pooling

Hello   We want to deliver to analyzer machine the bi-directional traffic from BigIP F5 via clone pools. But I think it seems like to setup incorrectly because I can see the real client ip addres...
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Henrik_Gyllkran
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Oct 07, 2015

I might be mistaken but I don't think clone pools actually clone traffic bi-directional, I think you only see the traffic that the BIG-IP sends to the pool member, not the response. Either way, the description of clone pools (both client- and serverside) specifically says that it is prior to address translation so I think you're out of luck there. Maybe you could set up port mirroring on the switch where the servers are attached and hook up your analyzer to that?