# Problems getting users real ip to pod
**URL:** https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/problems-getting-users-real-ip-to-pod/3210
**Category:** General Discussions
**Created:** [October 23, 2018, 8:23am UTC](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/problems-getting-users-real-ip-to-pod/3210 "2018-10-23T08:23:47Z")
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### Author:  [@jonasdkhansen](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/u/jonasdkhansen)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2018, 8:23am UTC](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/problems-getting-users-real-ip-to-pod/3210/1 "2018-10-23T08:23:47Z")
Hi all! I have a GKE cluster with Istio installed. I’m using the istio ingress as loadbalancer from outside, and sending the traffic to a simple nginx pod. But the nginx is getting the istio ingress ip, and not the real users ip.
This is the nginx configuration:
proxy\_set\_header Host $host;
proxy\_set\_header X-Real-IP $remote\_addr;
proxy\_set\_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy\_add\_x\_forwarded\_for;
Anybody know what the problem could be ?
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### Author:  [@jonasdkhansen](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/u/jonasdkhansen)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2018, 11:04am UTC](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/problems-getting-users-real-ip-to-pod/3210/2 "2018-10-23T11:04:09Z")
I got it working with adding externalTrafficPolicy: Local to the istio-ingressgateway service, and then in my nginx conf i added a header with $http\_x\_forwarded\_for