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Paul_Roberts_16
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Jul 21, 2014

X-Forwarded-For and SNAT addresses

When debugging a minor issue for a client a couple of weeks ago, I wound up staring at a screenful of header dump that showed the X-Forwarded-For value which appears to be not the IP address of the r...
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Paul_Roberts_16
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Jul 21, 2014

I say this because the user in question had one of those lovely debug scripts in place that just echoes back the full query along with each and every header passed, which is why I noticed it. However, something else just caught my eye... you posted IP::client_addr instead of IP::remote_addr (like the iRule has). Is perhaps IP::client_addr what we should be using instead of IP::remote_addr as shown at http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/4000/800/sol4816.html ?