Azure Load Balancer Floating IP option - why do packets at backend guest show as translated?

Chris Wynne 0 Reputation points
2024-01-17T16:16:07.9433333+00:00

Have a Azure public Load balancer with two public IP's as frontends with a two member backend pool - Palo Alto NVA firewalls. Those NVA's inspect and translate traffic to backend hosts on a subscriber virtual network. Recently this has stopped working, and despite the Floating IP option being set, the packets seen by the NVA's show the packet destination being translated to the IP of the Palo NVA. IE: What we expect: Source IP 1.1.1.1, Destination 40.1.1.40 What we see on the NVA: Source IP 1.1.1.1 Destination 192.168.1.4 Previously this worked and packets would match translation rules and security policies on the NVA (we've done this setup in multiple environments), but sometime in december 2023, this stopped working for at least one environment and we've not been able to work around it since.

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