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Nadeem_Siddiqui's avatar
Nadeem_Siddiqui
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May 13, 2022

Firewall did not seeing source public IP. Log show F5 as source IP.

Hi, I have a VIP that accesses able from outside. When the user connects to this VIP in the firewall log we see F5 source IP vs we should see public IP for that user. My VIP Source Address Translati...
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Source public IP not showing in FW log
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Heath_Parrott
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May 13, 2022

If the firewall has a default gateway that is set to a floating IP/Virtual Server of the F5 pair then you should be able to disable SNAT (set to NONE).  If the Firewall does not point to F5 systems for egress then SNAT Auotmap or the use of a SNAT pool will be required for the applicaiton to function properly. 

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