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Ray_Sbrusch_941
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Oct 28, 2009

Preserving Client IP address for SMTP traffic

I know this topic has been discussed in the forums multiple times, but I never found implementation details which dont' require iRules or putting the BigIP in bridging mode.     I would li...
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hooleylist
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Apr 25, 2010
Hi Jeff,

 

 

I don't think there is any mechanism within RDP to pass the original client IP address to the server. If the clients and servers are not on the same network and you can change to servers' default gateway to LTM's self IP on their network, you could remove the SNAT from the VIP and have LTM use the client's IP address to establish the serverside connection.

 

 

Aaron