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jondyke_46152
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusIP address restriction to IIS
I have some virtual directories in IIS that are locked down by IP address. As now all traffic to my servers is coming from the IP of the 'loadbalancer' not the source IP of the client how do I get ar...
jondyke_46152Nimbostratus
NimbostratusOk - may help if I give a bit more detail:-
2 x F5 LTM on a single subnet (SNAT in use)
The traffic goes to a farm of web servers.
Some of the websites on the webservers have 'virtual directories' which are locked down to a specific IP address range in IIS. Obviously this now does not work since the load balancers IP is seen instead of the source client IP.
The article mentions that the source IP can be passed through in a header using the HTTP profile. I suspect though that this could then only be applied at site level rather than Virtual directory level?
I suspect the way forward is an irule.
