Purpose of keeping original IP for server?

[nygenxny123]

What is the purpose of keeping your source IP address .for example i see this in our config

policy-map type loadbalance first-match NEW-CLIENT

class NEW-CLIENT1
    serverfarm New CLIENT1
    insert-http Client-IP header-value "%is"

we are doing SNAT..in the layer 3 policy map...is this keeping the original IP ?

[ciscocsoc]

Hi,

The line causes an HTTP header line to be inserted into the request. This allows your web application or server to pick up the original address if it coded to do so. You'll also see it in an packet captures you do on the server.

Some applications require that a header be inserted if they are in a load-balanced environment (e.g. WebLogic WL-Proxy-SSL).

HTH

Cathy