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Geoff_Littlewoo's avatar
Geoff_Littlewoo
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Jul 24, 2009

Use iRulke to extract X-Forwarded out of HTTP packet

I have a polling HTTP pakcet that the LTM does not see as a proper compliant HTTP packet.   Due to this the device sends a single packet in and the F5 closes the connection. This connection need...
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hoolio
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Jul 27, 2009
What VIP configuration are you using? Is SNAT enabled or disabled? Are you using an iRule?

 

 

Are you seeing the monitor traffic in your trace? If you have a redundant pair with SNAT enabled, the load balanced traffic would be sourced from LTM's floating self IP address to the server IP's. With/without SNAT, LTM's monitor traffic will be sent from the non-floating self IP address(es).

 

 

Aaron