> On Jan 15, 2019, at 9:43 AM, Pete French <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the suggestions - unfortunately both of those (unless I
> misread them) terminate the TCP connection and make a new one to
> the backends. I was after something where I can see the original IP
> address on the socket. Though I could put a procy in front and add
> the headers I suppse, but thats a biut more work as it involves changing
> the code.
> 
> Interested in the apache traffic manager - I hadnt come across that
> one before, tahnks,

Pete,

For what it’s worth, HAProxy has the PROXY protocol for exactly the scenario 
you’re describing; I’ve heard it’s very straightforward and powerful to use, 
although haven’t had to use it on any of my HAProxy instances which are 
primarily doing L7.

https://www.haproxy.com/blog/preserve-source-ip-address-despite-reverse-proxies/


Thanks,
—
Matt Garber

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