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Doug_25517
Nimbostratus
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 tha...
Kevin_Stewart
Employee
EmployeeIf 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 server
First 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?
