[syslog-ng] Sylog-ng and F5 Load balancer.

[Balazs Scheidler]

X-Forwarded-For is an http header, so not applicable to syslog-ng.

If there's indeed a tcp option that would be doable, do you have a
documentation about that?

Also, f5 would not really do load balancing as it assumes that there are
many, short lived connections, whereas syslog is a long term connection.

All an f5 is doing is monitoring the nodes and react if one of them fails.

On Thu, Aug 6, 2020, 17:21 Peter Griggs <peter at petergriggs.co.uk> wrote:

> Hello
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> Does anyone have any experience of syslog-ng behind F5 load balancer and
> preserving source IP address? The F5 can put the X-Forwarding header or TCP
> Options value but I don't believe syslog-ng can understand either of these
> - Am I wrong? If I am then I am assuming I can have a filter that
> overwrites $HOST with the value of X-Forwarding or TCP Options.
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> Any help appreciated.
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> Thanks
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> Peter.
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