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mohammed5370
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusXFF for retaining client's Original IP
Hello Experts, I need your help to get the issue sorted on my end. I've been looking for a solution to retain client's Original IP address instead of SNAT IP address. Have gone through few articels ...
Tamer-Zain
Cirrus
CirrusYou could find the client IP address in server side logs after some simple actions by extract the IP address from the HTTP header, all web servers you can do that MS IIS, apache, NGNIX.
Check out this short video
How to use XFF check this article
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K4816
mohammed5370Nimbostratus
NimbostratusHello Zain,
I have many virtual server and configuring all backend server to extract the IP address from HTTP header would be too difficult. I 'm looking for an alternative to get the Client's true IP or Original IP address without having to configure any thing on the backend server. I would need something to do on F5 itself to get the original IP address.