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NimbostratusF5 potentially overriding username when forwarding traffic to destination server
I currently have a configuration that has a client connecting to a VIP on the F5 which then forwards the connection and data through its pool members to another server. For some reason it appears that the F5 is attempting to login as root into the destination server as opposed to using the configured user name that the client is supposed to be using/providing.
Has anyone run into this type of issue? I don't think it's actually the F5, but I could be wrong.
Thx! Doug
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- Kevin_Stewart
Employee
If I understand your scenario, you have an F5 VIP that load balances to a server, which then passes that traffic to another server
client -> F5 VIP -> server (in pool) -> destination serverFirst question, I guess, is what is that intermediate server and how is it routing traffic? Is it a proxy? Are you describing a two-tier architecture (web server -> application server)? And second, how does authentication work in this environment? How does the user pass credentials?
Doug_25517Thank you for the quick reply Kevin. We were able to resolve this issue by defining the username outside of the code snippet that utilized an if statement on the client machine.
I didn't think it was an F5 issue and it appears that my initial assumption was correct.
