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jake_macabuag_4
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Nov 18, 2012

Load Balancing Bluecoat proxy (transparent) and seeing the original ip

Hi guys,   I am setting up F5 to load balance bluecoat proxy servers and it is on the same segment with the user. I created a Virtual server that will be set on the client's web browser. Internet ...
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Nov 18, 2012

i understand that you configured X-Forwarded on F5 sothat it can insert Original Client IP , but have you configured BlueCoat to look on IP on HTTP X-Forwarded Header instead of looking on IP at Layer 4 headers . I believe BlueCoat policies itselff should be adjusted to Look on X-Forwarded Headers

 

https://kb.bluecoat.com/index?page=content&id=KB1892