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Mike_62298
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Apr 22, 2008

Remote_addr IP Addtess

I'm new with F5 loadbalancing and just installed our BIPIP last week using test web servers. I found that the Remote_Addr variable now returns the Self IP address instead of the actual user/client's I...
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hoolio
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Apr 23, 2008
If you're finding that the REMOTE_ADDR CGI variable on the server being load balanced has changed to the BIG-IP self IP, it's because the BIG-IP is performing source address translation on requests sent to the pool.

 

 

Take a look at this post (Click here) for additional detail and options for handling this.

 

 

Aaron