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kuldeep7985
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Dec 25, 2024
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Request to forward client IP in X-Forwarded-For header

I don't really think WAF side has passed in real IP in X-Forwarded-For Http header!!

For Example: If I manually add a fake X-Forward-For header, our nginx is able to receive it.

In the picture, it shows a flow:

10.237.37.114 (just passthrough X-Forward-For if any, didn't append the upstream IP) -> 10.237.37.110 (append 10.237.37.114 to X-Forward-For) -> 10.244.9.73 (our nginx)

This pic means our OCI LB and nginx are fine, they respect the passed in X-Forwarded-For, so if WAF passes it then we'll get it.


For the first 10.237.37.114, some questions:

  1. What's this IP?
  2. What's the upstream of this IP?

Kindly find PFA. 

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    Hey kuldeep7985 - this seems to have evaded my notice for 1 year now! ugh.
    Sorry for that.

    It looks like it belongs in our Technical Forum?

    Or are you asking for a feature change to an F5 Product?