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by zackbloom 2641 days ago
This is correct. It's significantly harder to inject the origin IP into a TCP stream. We have ways [1] of doing it, but it requires some coordination on both sides.

1- https://blog.cloudflare.com/mmproxy-creative-way-of-preservi...

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Have you considered enabling this out of band? For example as a network administrator I could verify a CIDR block and receive a real time stream of 5-tuples (err, 7-tuples with the proxy?) destined to my network.