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Nath
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CirrostratusHow to check if XFF is working
Anyone I am looking for a way to check if XFF is working in bigip aside from checking it to Wireshark. Server team keep on claiming that they still see the bigip SNAT IP on their end.
Thank you
-Nat
Ryan_80361The pool member will still see the SNAT IP as the source IP. However, with XFF enabled the http request header will have the real client ip included as an additional field.
Aside from checking the http profile/iRule that you've configured you could capture the server side request to confirm that the field is getting inserted but that would obviously require the use of tcpdump/wireshark.
- Ryan_80361
Yep, Check out K4816 and look towards the bottom of the page for the section titled Configuring the web server to extract the IP address from the HTTP header for extra info on configuring the web server.
Nath@Ryan i see, so I think all i can do is to check if they configured they server correctly.
RyannnnnnnnnAltocumulus
The pool member will still see the SNAT IP as the source IP. However, with XFF enabled the http request header will have the real client ip included as an additional field.
Aside from checking the http profile/iRule that you've configured you could capture the server side request to confirm that the field is getting inserted but that would obviously require the use of tcpdump/wireshark.
- Ryannnnnnnnn
Yep, Check out K4816 and look towards the bottom of the page for the section titled Configuring the web server to extract the IP address from the HTTP header for extra info on configuring the web server.
- Nath
@Ryan i see, so I think all i can do is to check if they configured they server correctly.