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VictorC
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May 06, 2010

Need to see client IP when using SNAT and load balancing OID.

Hi,     Due to current network environment, our LTM requires automap SNAT. I've setup a virtual server to load balance OID servers. However we cannot see the client's real IP due to the SNAT. ...
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dfosborne2_2224
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Dec 30, 2015

If your pool members on the backend are linux, I have a solution which creates a "conditional bigip gateway" fully exposing the client IP address which is helpful when youre doing some sort of traffic for which you cannot inject headers via an iRule. You can see that here:

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/codeshare/kill-snat-automap

 

The doc spells out the requirements...and no it does not require the bigip to be the default gateway of the given pool member.