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sanket_bangar_1
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Apr 18, 2013

IP missing in x-forwarded-for header.

We are having setup where f5 is loadbalancing the traffic on 5 servers. We have enabled x-forwarded-for option to get original client IP. Everything is working good however we have observed in some c...
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ReganAnderson
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Apr 22, 2013
Hi, it is possible that the cases in which you are not seeing an X-Forwarded-For header are the BIG-IPs monitoring to your servers? The X-Forwarded-For header will only be inserted on load balanced traffic, BIG-IP initiated requests will not include this header.