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AltocumulusHow to Pass Actual Source IP to Pool Server
MVPHello,
As you have already stated that when you are setting Source Address Translation to NONE from AutoMAP, application is not working. This means backend pool member do not have gateway set to F5 and it is creating asymmetric routing issue.
There are two ways to achieve your requirement -
1. If you do not wish to change default gateway of backend pool members to F5, you need to enable x-forwarded-for under http profile. This will preserve client actual IP when SNAT is enabled and send it to backend pool members. This need configuration to be done at server end as well to extract client IP from http header. Below article will help you for this configuration.
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K4816
2. Setting default gateway of backend pool members to F5. For this, you dont need to enable SNAT on Virtual Server and with this, you can see actual client IP address at backend pool. But depending upon the architecture, separate Self & Floating IP may need to configure at F5 end.
Hope it helps!
Mayur
AltocumulusThank You Mayur. I will prefer to go with the option 1 without changing anything on the server and enabling the application to capture the X-Forwarded field.
