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Discussions around F5's BIG-IP security application delivery controller solutions. Ask about configuration, installation, performance, and any other administrative related issues.

F5's BIG-IP platform contains many modules that each do different things, so if you're not sure where to ask your question regarding their products, do so here. This is a generic area for all of their BIG-IP related product lines. Their Silverline cloud and Linerate products should be in separate forums but still feel free to ask here if unsure.

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F5 rule deployment and source control

I'm a developer, our Ops team are currently doing F5 rules manually. And nothing is in a source control of any kind. I want to get to the point where there is a single file in source control, which someone will modify, and then run a script of that…
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NTLM, Kerberos and F5 switch issues

I'm supporting an IIS based application that is scaled out into web and application servers. Both web and applications run behind IIS. The application is NTLM capable when IIS is configured to authenticate via Kerberos. It's been working so far…
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Does F5 HTTP/2 profile need tuning?

The current default for the F5 HTTP/2 profile has a Concurrent Streams Per Connection default of 10. This seems a bit conservative. IETF recommended that this value being no smaller than 100, so as to not unnecessarily limit parallelism…
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Creating an F5 Pool And Assign Multiple Health Monitors To It

Say I create two nodes SERVER1 and SERVER2 create ltm node SERVER1 description SERVER1 address 10.1.1.1%200 create ltm node SERVER2 description SERVER2 address 10.1.1.2%200 After I added the nodes I wanted to create a pool and assign it multiple…
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Is it possible to set a scheduled tasks to run both directly before and directly after a windows update?

We're currently attempting to find a solution to better automate our Windows updates on our IIS machines. We have an infrastructure that is hit by thousands of transactions at all hours of the day; the best window we can provide is one with less of…
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What happens to IIS when I reboot my server?

At my work, we're currently addressing concerns about IIS. We use an F5 load balancer across a few IIS servers and therefore can handle one being taken out of the pool for a bit, but we are concerned about the effect a Windows Update reboot might…
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Nginx load balancing as gateway (without SNAT)

I'm trying to configure Nginx as last-resort backup for F5-BIG-IP and I'm not sure if it's possible to configure it to behave similarly to F5 in terms of traffic handling? F5 is currently deployed as gateway in L3 like this (all addresses here begin…
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F5 bigip network access application failed to run on Linux Mint 19 (Ubuntu 18.04 LTS based) distro

We are using F5 VPN, and I found a bug and work around: F5 network access client failed to run with error: ~ $ /opt/f5/vpn/f5vpn %u qt.network.ssl: QSslSocket: cannot resolve OPENSSL_init_ssl qt.network.ssl: QSslSocket: cannot resolve…
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Testing strategies for f5 bigip

I am a developer who is used to being able to test and debug code. Occasionally I have to make changes to our load balancer configuration. As far as I can see, if I mess this up it could stop the whole site working, but we don't have a way to test…
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F5 LTM frequently kills processes with SIGKILL

We have a BIP-IP 6400 LTM device that is killing processes with an alarming frequency. The CPU is consistently around 23% utilization, so that is not an issue. Here is a sample from /var/log/ltm: Oct 7 08:21:55 local/pri-4600 info bigd[3471]:…
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What is the request flow in BIG-IP load balancers for NONE preference?

I would like to know to which member does the request will be first directed to when NONE preference is set in the BIG-IP load balancers. From this link, there are three ways to set the redundancy state preference. Now, if we doesn't specify the…
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Way to convert claims tokens to Kerberos that SP2010 accepts

I'm hoping there is an F5 way to do what is described in this article: http://blog.auth360.net/2010/12/03/the-triumvirate-uag-2010sp1-ad-fs-2-0-and-kerberos/ Users login to a mobile app using claims-based authentication at the front-end and need to…
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configure F5 via Puppet

I have an Ubuntu PuppetMaster instance. I need to manage a F5 BIG-IP (v10.2.4) device. I'm following the directions for the Puppet Labs F5 module ( http://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/f5 ). Is it possible for the f5_proxy node to be co-located…
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F5 BigIP upgrade from 9.x to 10.x

Having a few difficulties upgrading a Big IP 3400 from 9.4.8 to any version 10.x image. The following are the versions I've tried: 10.1.0.3341.0 10.2.2.763.3 10.2.3.112.0 10.2.4.577.0 To upgrade I'm running the following command: image2disk…
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What's the best way to detect whether an incoming request is secure?

Is there a preferred method of detecting HTTP vs. HTTPS on an incoming request to an F5 load-balancer? We are attempting to detect secure vs. non-secure with an iRule and pass a corresponding header flag along to my web servers. Here's what we have…
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