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webber_140294
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Dec 20, 2013

Irule to strip header Xforwarded ssh/sftp

I have an Irule that strips out the xforwarded header information and passes the client IP to our servers instead of the F5 IP. I would like to set up an Irule to strip header Xforwarded for ssh/sft...
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Eric_St__John's avatar
Eric_St__John
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Dec 20, 2013

X-Forwarded-For is an HTTP header. There is no equivalent header capability in SSH/SFTP. You could possibly add it to a TCP Options, but you would then need a way to extract it at the SSH/SFTP server. This would be in no way as simple as working with HTTP headers.

 

Eric