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Description

This article describes how to view the actual client IP details in the FortiGate logs when the FortiGate receives traffic from a proxy device connected to its LAN segment.

Scope

FortiGate v.6.0.0 or higher.

FortiGate is handling pass-through traffic, FortiGate itself is not acting as the proxy.

Solution

Network layout:

Users-----Proxy server----FortiGate-----Internet.

 

When extended logging is enabled, the following HTTP header information can be added to the raw data field in UTM logs:

 

  • Method.
  • X-Forwarded-For.
  • Request-Content-Type | Response-Content-Type.
  • Referer.
  • User-Agent.

 

Note that the UTM log will show the x-forwarded-for data only if the proxy server includes this field in the GET request.

 

web filter profile extended logging is used to view/log from the x-forwarded-for filed in the GET request.

 

The below settings need to be applied in the corresponding web filter profile:

 

conf webfilter profile

    edit <profile-name>

        set log-all-url enable

        set extended-log enable

        set web-extended-all-action-log enable

    end

 

Apply this web filter profile in the FLOW mode firewall policy.

 

config firewall policy
    edit <id>
        set inspection-mode flow
        set logtraffic all
        set logtraffic-start disable
    next
end

 

The above setting makes sure that all traffic (both pass-through and blocked) gets logged.

 

When the ‘extended-log’ option is enabled for UTM profiles, all HTTP header information for denied traffic is logged.

 

When enable the ‘web-extended-all-action-log’ option is enabled for the web filter profile, all HTTP header information for allowed traffic as well is logged.

 

Verification:

 

The web filter logs will now record the actual client IP as seen against the x-forwarded-for field:

 

date=2022-06-24 time=11:16:22 eventtime=1656054982230315333 tz="+0400" logid="0318012801" type="utm" subtype="webfilter" eventtype="ftgd_err" level="warning" vd="root" policyid=1 sessionid=51415 srcip=172.16.1.1 srcport=16717 srcintf="port10" srcintfrole="undefined" dstip=63.137.229.1 dstport=80 dstintf="port1" dstintfrole="undefined" proto=6 service="HTTP" hostname="support.fortinet.com" forwardedfor="10.1.15.1" profile="mon-all-prxy" action="passthrough" reqtype="direct" url="http://support.fortinet.com/" sentbyte=377 rcvdbyte=0 direction="outgoing" msg="A rating error occurs" error="invalid license" rawdata=" Method=GET|X-Forwarded-For= 10.1.15.1|User-Agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0"