Cannot get real IP of clients in a Traefik running in a Docker container

Traefik Traefik v3 (latest)
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Hello, ive been stuck on this problem for a few days now. I also saw similar questions but none of the solutions worked.
I have a traefik instance running in a docker container. The problem is i want to implement middleware but none of them work because all of the requests come with the ip 172.18.0.1 which is the dockers ip.
I tried installing several plugins for finding real ips, switching the container to host mode, different configurations in static conf for traefik headers etc.
Any help would be appreciated!

docker-compose:

    reverse-proxy:
        image: traefik:v3.3
        restart: always
        container_name: traefik
        labels:
            - traefik.enable=false  
        ports:
            - "80:80"     # http
            - "443:443"   # https
            - "8080:8080" # dashboard
        volumes:
            - /run/user/1000/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
            - ./conf/traefik_config/traefik.yml:/etc/traefik/traefik.yml
            - ./conf/certs:/etc/traefik/certs
            - ./conf/dynamic:/etc/traefik/dynamic/
            - ./conf/letsencrypt/:/etc/letsencrypt/

revelant parts of static:

entryPoints:
    web:
        address: ":80"
    websecure:
        address: ":443"
    traefik:
        address: ":8080"
experimental:
  plugins:
    traefik-get-real-ip:
      moduleName: "github.com/Paxxs/traefik-get-real-ip"
      version: "v1.0.3"
    traefikrealip:
      moduleName: "github.com/NenoxAG/traefikrealip"
      version: "v0.0.3"
    scanblock:
      moduleName: "github.com/safing/scanblock"
      version: "v1.0.0"
    traefik-real-ip-plugin:
      moduleName: "github.com/Desuuuu/traefik-real-ip-plugin"
      version: "v1.1.0"

Output from one of the plugins:

traefik  | [get-realip] ☃️  Config loaded.(4) &{[{X-From-Cdn cdn1 X-Forwarded-For false} {X-From-Cdn cdn2 Client-Ip false} {X-From-Cdn cdn3 Cf-Connecting-Ip true} {*  RemoteAddr false}]}
traefik  | [get-realip] 🐸  Current Proxy：(*)
traefik  | [get-realip] 👀  IPs:'[172.18.0.1]' 1
traefik  | [get-realip] currentIP:172.18.0.1, index:0, result:172.18.0.1
2

Have you tried host mode for the ports? Are you running Docker Desktop?

    ports:
      # listen on host ports without ingress network
      - target: 80
        published: 80
        protocol: tcp
        mode: host
      - target: 443
        published: 443
        protocol: tcp
        mode: host
3

Hey, yeah i tried that also network_mode:host but it still same result.
I'm running docker rootless in an ubuntu server and traefik is my only container there.

4

Which OS? Using a VM? What Docker version?

5

Ubuntu server 24.04.1 LTS
this whole machine is a vm running in vmware esxii
docker is actually in rootless with version 27.5.1