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xiaolche
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Feb 15, 2023

Collect UDP packet client IP with irule on LTM

Could anyone tell me how to collect client IP address with irule and save client ip to log ? We have VIP which is for DNS and NTP service,  protocol profile is UDP  ( without Datagram LB enable) . i...
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Amine_Kadimi
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Feb 15, 2023

As per the doc here the command [IP::server_addr] is not available in the CLIENT_ACCEPTED event. I wonder how the iRule can succeed in some cases. As Paulius suggested you should see error messages if the iRule does contain errors. Can you check this? 

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xiaolche
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Feb 20, 2023

Thank you both.   I tried SERVER_CONNECTED first , then changed to CLIENT_ACCEPTED . So the log i saw maybe from server_connected. I will test again during maitenance window.

-xiaolin