You can configure the F5 to not translate the client address. If you set the F5 up this way you'll get the client's IP address while still being able to use the F5 for load balancing. https://devcentral.f5.com/questions/maintain-client-ip-address
Chris On Friday, April 18, 2014 3:30 AM, Emmanuel Lécharny <[email protected]> wrote: Le 4/18/14 7:27 AM, 心冶独孤 a écrit : > Hi, > > > I am using Mina to developing a server program. > When the client directly connects to the server, using the following code I > can get the ip: > String clientIP = > ((InetSocketAddress)session.getRemoteAddress()).getAddress().getHostAddress(); > But, when we use a F5(load balance machine) between the client and server, I > can't get the real ip now. > Instead, I get the virtual ip(LAN ip) from F5. Plain normal. The IP address you get is the address of the socket, which is the socket to the F5. > I need the real ip, can you help me? No, we can't. This is simply not possible. -- Regards, Cordialement, Emmanuel Lécharny www.iktek.com
