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JosephT
Nimbostratus
Feb 02, 2008iRule to preserve client IP address?
Our developers want to put an app (AD4J) behind our load balancers. Our load balancers are single arm'd and we use SNAT automap on the VIP. The AD4J server needs to see the client source IP for it's...
David_Homoney
Nimbostratus
Feb 20, 2008jtani,
There is nothing iRules can do to fix this problem. The reason is that in a single armed configuration you need to ensure that the return traffic gets back to the client via the same path. To do this we SNAT and that will change the client IP address at OSI Layer 3. The only two options left for you to do would be to change your architecture so that you are in routed mode or too configure using nPath. You can see more about nPath in the following link.
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