# Rate limiting plugin is not working as expected with nginx as load balancer

**URL:** <https://discuss.konghq.com/t/rate-limiting-plugin-is-not-working-as-expected-with-nginx-as-load-balancer/7029>\
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**Created:** [September 2, 2020, 8:01am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/rate-limiting-plugin-is-not-working-as-expected-with-nginx-as-load-balancer/7029 "2020-09-02T08:01:03Z")\
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hi ,

i am using kong 2.0.1 DB less version. And recently i applied ratelimiting plugin on my upstream services.  
below is i have done

1. enabled plugin for each service( ex: one service - 4 Requests per minute)
2. setup a load balancer(nginx) to verify with different client\_ip’s.
3. whn i try to access my environment with load balancer with 2 client\_ip’s every time " **kong.client.get\_forwarded\_ip()** is getting remote address. so we can not able to verify with 2 client ip’s.

what i am expecting is with 2 clinet ip’s per minute each ip should get 4 RPM. that is not happening.  
anything i am missing in my configuration?  
Please help here.

this is my configuration

- name: rate-limiting  
config:  
minute: 4  
policy: local  
hour: 100000  
limit\_by: service