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Chris_Schaerli_
Nimbostratus
Sep 28, 2008tracking user sessions when snatting
I am looking at changing configuration for load balancing so that we use a snat pool rather than passing the original client IP back to the webservers. Snat will save me many headaches with routing, ...
hoolio
Cirrostratus
Sep 29, 2008As skottieb suggested, using an XFF header is the typical way to track the original client IP address for HTTP requests through a device which performs source address translation to ensure symmetric routing. SOL4816 has some additional information on hwo to configure IIS and Apache to log the custom header (Click here). If you are using the XFF header for something other than reporting, you should consider removing any existing XFF headers in the request. You can do this by configuring the HTTP profile's 'Request Header Erase' field with X-Forwarded-For.
Aaron
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