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Unbind your LDAP servers with iRules

LDAP is one of the most widely used authentication protocols around today. There are plenty of others, but LDAP is undeniably one of the big ones. It comes as no surprise then that we often hear diff...
Published Oct 09, 2008
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Jul 13, 2012
Does this imply you're using SNAT? If not, how does it handle the shifting source IP address as different requests come in when it re-uses the connection?

 

 

I would think you'd want to be able to log the client source IP to track where your users are coming in from - if not for real time monitoring than for forensics after a problem. ("hey, Alice started having problems right after that ldap auth request came in from an address in China!")

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