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Injazat-SOC's avatar
Injazat-SOC
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Jan 23, 2020

F5 Proxy protocol irule support

One of our service is hosted in Cloudflare which is redirecting the request to our F5 LTM where the actual service is hosted. By default when the request coming from cloudflare it is not sending the...
application delivery
BIG-IP
iRules
boneyard's avatar
boneyard
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Jan 27, 2020

so you have enabled proxy v1 or v2 in cloud flare as described here?

https://developers.cloudflare.com/spectrum/getting-started/proxy-protocol/

 

have you check the traffic at the F5 with a packet capture to determine it is actually send?

 

and why exactly cant you enable the true client IP header?

 

have you checked the ltm log when you have the iRule applied? is anything logged?