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Elhanan_maayan_
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Dec 04, 2013

knowing my F5's ip

hi.. i recently read this link text

 

as i was facing the opposite problem, a java client behind LTM needed to connect to another server outside F5 with a soap request containing that client's IP address (that was part of the application custom soap request) , naturally all automatic java methods here including opening a socket to that server and getting the local address always return the local ip of the machine which is not accessible to the outside world, but i was wondering is there anyway to obtain said ip with some soft of API , or anything that won't require me to hardcode it into a property file.

 

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  • This is one of many reasons why NAT is bad and we all need to get onto IPv6. Unless you want to open the connection, then query the F5 via iControl or the REST API and then use the response to build your SOAP request it'll need to be hard coded.