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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 Big-IP iRule - HTTP Redirect

I have just started to work with F5's Big-IP and I have a question about iRules and HTTP redirects. We are moving to offload our SSL from our web servers and onto the F5, our application as it stands enforces a number of pages on our site to only…
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does bigIP support sticky session

Does BIG IP support sticky sessions? I have 2 apache's behind a Big IP box at my partner end. Need to know whether Big IP supports sticky sessions. My apache has the sticky session enabled. All requests will hit the backend hosted in jboss.
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complicated bonding and network question

I am not a network guy and would like to know how can I setup the below two configurations and their pros and cons: Networking component: -- WAN: Cisco 2970 * 1 Load Balancer: F5 switch 1600 * 2 Private Subnet: Cisco 2960 * 2 My situation is like…
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How-To Configure Weblogic, Agile PLM and an F5 LTM

Agile, Weblogic, and an F5 walk into a bar ... I've got this Agile PLM v 9.3 Running on WebLogic, two managed servers. An F5 BigIP LTM. We're upgrading from Agile v 9.2.1.4 running on OAS. The problem is that while the Windows client works fine…
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F5 Networks iRule/Tcl - Escaping UNICODE 6-character escape sequences so they are processed as and reinserted as the 6-character sequence?

We are trying to get an F5 BIG-IP LTM iRule working properly with SharePoint 2007 in an SSL termination role. This architecture offloads all of the SSL processing to the F5 and the F5 forwards interactive requests/responses to the SharePoint front…
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Proxy SSL from load balancer

A server admin who is setting up a load balancer asked me if I wanted to: Host SSL certs directly on web servers or, Proxy SSL from the load balancer I've only done the former implementation. Can someone compare these? If I have a web application…
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F5 SNI Passthrough

G'day all, I'm trying to configure an F5 virtual Big-IP for L4 pass through SNI load balancing, but am having troubles (probably because I'm new to F5's). We have backend websites that require SNI (due to co-hosting multiple applications on a small…
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Impact of disabling Port and Address Translation for F5

If I have a set of servers behind a specific VIP that are operating fine, but I want to use the action on service down "reselect" and it requires port and address translation to be disabled. what would be the impact if I did so?
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F5 BIG-IP VE in Azure stuck in Offline Disconnected state with Inet port exhaustion errors

We have BIG-IP version 13.1.0.2 deployed in Azure using the Auto Scale BIG-IP WAF (LTM + ASM) - VM Scale Set template and it has been working fine until recently, when one of the 5 instances started showing as (cfg-sync Disconnected)(Offline). If I…
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How to automate F5 saas_idp template on BigIP from Ansible

I am deploying a BigIP IdP SAML virtual server in IdP initiated mode thanks to iApps template f5.saas_idp.v1.0.1rc1 based on instruction from https://www.f5.com/pdf/deployment-guides/saml-idp-saas-dg.pdf It works well from BigIP wizard but I expect…
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Can't connect to Internet while F5 VPN is connected

I'm using F5 BIG-IP Edge VPN client on OS X Yosemite 10.10 and trying to find the best way to access the web, while connected Has anyone found a solution, how to make it work? Maybe this could be an approach to setting up routes in memory? The…
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Why would F5 return a valid cookie followed by null value?

I have two AEM servers behind F5. The JMeter script is getting a valid cookie from the first server whereas the script is getting a valid cookie followed by a null value. Because of this behavior, the requests to the second server were erroring…
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How to prevent a user access to a website using server.domain.com but allowing thru the vip.domain.com?

We setup our website to run on the play framework. It is running http on 9000. We can access the site by going to http://servername.domain.com:9000 where servername is the name of the webserver. We also setup our F5 loadbalancer to redirect all…
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Tomcat Redirecting behind an F5 load balancer

I have 2 servers running 2 instanced of Tomcat each (one Tomcat instance for RC, one for Production). These servers, let's call them server1 and server2, are set behind an F5 load balancer to maintain uptime, and to provide SSL support. When…
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Pulling HTTP codes from a F5 Load Balancer

My environment is 4 Ubuntu 14.04 servers running Nginx sitting behind an F5 Load Balancer. They are sending metrics to Datadog and also pulling metrics from the F5 via SNMP to send to Datadog as well. The Dev team has a requirement to be able to…
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