Detect real IP when behind a proxy such as CloudFlare

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DanH42
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Detect real IP when behind a proxy such as CloudFlare

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I'm running a cPanel server that sits behind CloudFlare. I've been using csf for a while on another cPanel server and found it incredibly useful, but it's next to useless when all traffic is coming from a small range of already-known IPs. A script like Flarewall is a good start, but still requires csf to know the correct IP to block. Is there a way to get csf to pick up on X-Forwarded-For or CF-Connecting-IP headers, and make decisions based off those? Combined with Flarewall, this would be a killer feature.

I've looked through the settings and there doesn't seem to be a feature like this, but if anyone knows a way I could possibly "fake" it, I'm open to suggestions and willing to tinker.
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Re: Detect real IP when behind a proxy such as CloudFlare

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There is no functionality in iptables to do that.
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