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Q&A and discussion posts around F5's BIG-IP's security and application delivery controller solutions. Ask about configuration, installation, performance or anything else you can think of.

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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Big IP remove tcp/ip route and block communication to Docker Container

Short Version : Why Big IP delete some route when establishing VPN connection ? This impact “Docker Desktop for Windows” by blocking any communication with docker container because TCP/IP route to reach container is delete by Big IP. Long Version…
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How to identify the pool member that processed an HTTP_REQUEST in an iRule

To help with diagnosing a production issue, I'd like to insert the name of the pool member that handled the HTTP_RESPONSE. I have a pool (my_application_pool) configured with three members (WEB1, WEB2, WEB3), like this: Pool:…
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Reporting a WCF application's status to F5's Big IP products

In a Windows Server 2003 environment with a self hosted .Net 3.5/WCF application, how can an application report its status to a BigIP Local Traffic Manager? Example: One of my services errors. My custom WCF application hosting software (written…
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Ansible repeat task until a specified string is in the output

I have an task that needs to be executed till there is a certain string in the stdout. The stdout of bigip_command is a list (https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/bigip_command_module.html#return-values) - name: Disable pool member …
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Big-IP F5 irule to change uri

Is there a way to change a URI without a redirect. I want to change the following URL https://example.com//q//w//et to https://example.com/q/w/et
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How do you get resources working in app/service1 from app/service2 behind SSO

I have very limited knowledge on how SSO works behind the curtains, let alone its configuration. I am working on a server that is protected by SSO(Single sign-on). On this server i have multiple sub-domains that have independent apps and…
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How can I get the real IP address of Client behind F5 loadbalancer with Java socket

I am developing a Java application. The client sends socket request to the sever after the F5 loadbalancer. The server should record the IP address of the socket request. How can I get the real IP address of the client instead of the IP addreess of…
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Source based routing (Policy based routing) on BIG-IP F5

I've multiple DHCP pools for different VPN profiles (Different subnets) on BIG-IP APM, and I want to route internet traffic for the users through VPN (Force all traffic through VPN), I have multiple self IPs through which I have connectivity to…
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SSE support in big IP f5 load balancer

I am using SSE to push notification to client. The articture for my dataservices is as follows: Client -> API Gateway(Spring cloud api gateway) -> f5(loadBalancer) -> (nginx) ->dataservice When the load balancer is out of the picture, my…
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How to create ssl-client profile on f5 ltm with Icontrol REST API

My goal: to upload my ssl cert, create a ssl-client profile for my virtual server to use… So with a lot of digging through old posts and guessing at icontrol rest documentation meaning : I was able to my .pfx file from my locally installed computer…
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What would be the string returned from platform.system() for a Big-IP OS?

brand new to python here so bear with me please. I am creating a script that has to perform backups for various devices. I have the following code: def getOS(): if platform.system().upper() == 'JUNOS' : os = "junos" elif…
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How does ASP.NET MVC 3 know to put https on links even when F5 (big-ip) is handling the ssl?

On our site, we have F5's Big IP handling the SSL encrypting and decryption, and sending the request to port 80 on our server. Since this is the first site we are doing with ASP.NET MVC, I was curious how it would handle @HTML.ActionLink's in the…
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F5 Add apm_do_not_touch to HTML response to the end user

I am supporting ASP.NET application running on 3 web servers and have F5 system as firewall and load balance. Actually I don't have experience at all in F5 system but the following issue seems to be related to it The issue happened after we applied…
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Java client receives "connection reset" during SSL handshake with IIS server via F5 BIG-IP load balancer

We currently cannot find an approach to use Java code to connect to an IIS server (configured as mutual authentication) via a F5 BIG-IP load balancer, we have tried different Java versions and code, they all generated the same error. Here is what we…
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BigIP - Tomcat 8 connection refused on upgrade from tomcat 6

Tomcat starts listening on the port and the application also gets deployed but when I access the URL I get connection refused error. Is there any issue with BigIP not able to recognize the port opened by tomcat 8 on the server? Although when I…
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