Load Balancing Question

Using the same setup guidlines as you mention above, I can see the web pages (from all three servers) and all works well on my LTM except one rather annoying fact. My load balaced servers are Apache on Linux and when I look at the logs the remote host for every entry is the IP of my LTM! I have called support and they gave me several methods to try to get around snat which all failed at getting the true source ip of the remote host into those logs! I was wondering why this would be and if you have any suggestions?

 

 

Here is my setup:

 

 

VIP: 192.168.10.249

 

Self IP: 192.168.10.1

 

Server 1: 192.168.10.2

 

Server 2: 192.168.10.3

 

Server 3: 192.168.10.4

 

 

Default GW of LTM: 192.168.10.254 (Gateway Router)

 

Default GW of Servers: 192.168.10.1 (Self IP of LTM)

 

 

Note:

 

I notice you say to use the IP of the VIP not the SelfIP for the default gw, the gw on my servers is NOT the IP of the VIP, the support engineers had me set it up this way.

 

I also have ALL SNAT turned off (set to none) in advanced section of virtual server and no SNAT Pools or Pool members defined.

 

 

Thank you for any help you can give as this is a serious issue with my company as we use third party applications that read our logs and give is stats/accounting info which rely heavily on that entry. Since we do not have rights to modify the source code on these apps we are stuck until we can get this resolved in the LTM.