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sundogbrew's avatar
sundogbrew
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Aug 17, 2016

Preserving source IP in L4 VIP

So I created a VIP for sending log data to a couple of syslog servers. I created a L4 vip and it works fine, except the data shows up with the interface IP of the F5 which is to be expected (automap...
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Jinshu's avatar
Jinshu
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Aug 18, 2016

You got the answer in question itself mate..!!

 

since the traffic only gets pushed to the syslog servers you can do none for SNAT to preserve the original IP address.

 

Cheers

 

-Jinshu