Questions tagged [f5]

F5 makes the BIG-IP application delivery controller (ADC). The BIG-IPs features are concerned with making applications run fast, highly-available, and secure. Better known for its L7 (HTTP) load-balancing functionality, F5 also delivers application (Layer 7) security and resilience services in both hardware and software form-factors.

The tag is for questions related to products by F5 Networks.

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Reusing SAML assertion

I am implementing single sign on with multiple SPs. Here is my basic understanding: 1) Browser(User) requests resource from Service Provider (SP). 2) SP Redirects (with SAML Request) to Identity Provider (IdP). 3) Since it is first login, User…
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haproxy: What are its uses?

I got information about haproxy from Stack Exchange Gives Back 2014 page. Stackoverflow is aso using this excellent application. After visiting haproxy website, I found its uses like - load balancer. So, Does it work like F5 (reverse proxy) and can…
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Not recovering from an f5 drop during spock test

Has anyone ever created a successful Spock test against an f5 dropped connection? In my f5 rule, if a situation is satisfied - say a bad cookie, I drop the connection if { [HTTP::cookie exists "badCookie"] } { if { not ([HTTP::cookie "badCookie"]…
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How to parse F5 bigip.conf using pyparsing

am trying to figure out how to use this nifty lib to parse BigIP config files... the grammar should,be something like this: stanza :: name { content } name :: several words, might contain alphas nums dot dash underscore or slash content:: stanza…
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Issue with CRYPTO library in F5 BIG-IP: missing required parameter

i'm writing and iRule for the F5 Big-Ip v. 11.x. I have an issue with the CRYPTO library. When I try to decrypt a string in this way set foo [CRYPTO::decrypt -alg rc4 -keyhex $key $to_decrypt] where $key is a string in hex format and $to_decrypt…
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Connect to third-party two-way https ws from glassfish behind ssl-terminating-point

Context I developed an application deployed in a Glassfish 3.1. This application is accessed only by https and sometimes it must connect to third-party webservices located out the customers networks. The customer have other applications inside his…
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Python module urllib3: increase the `maxsize` (max pool size) of HTTPSConnectPool to a host, it make the https request slower

I have a code to test the HTTPS requests speed. I use urllib3 module and eventlet. The code is simple just like below, the pool max size is maxsize=1000. # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- import eventlet eventlet.monkey_patch() import urllib3 import…
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Fetch values from json

I'm new here and new to ansible playbooks. I'm trying to grab all the IPs that our F5 GTM/DNS devices use for iquery (not important). I'm running this task in my playbook... tasks: - name: get gtm servers bigip_device_info: …
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How to escape curly braces in Tcl (f5 bigip cli script)

Can you help me Here is the situation I have a string similar to this one profile1 { context all } profile2 { context serverside } profile3 { context clientside } profile4 { context clientside } profile5 { context serverside } I want to change…
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How to retrieve SSL Certificate serialnumber on F5 device using Ansible F5 modules collection?

I have the below script that list SSL certificate details except certificate's serial number. I see that bigip-device-info module doesn't support ssl-certs serial number. How do I retrieve the serial number of ssl certificate using f5 modules…
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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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Consul load balancing north south traffic

I am trying to run some of my micro services within consul service mesh. As per consul documentation, it is clear that consul takes care of routing, load balancing and service discovery. But their documentation also talks about 3rd party load…
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Error "class path contains multiple slf4J bindings" when opening newly installed HDFViewer on windows 10

I have problem opening HDFViewer on win10. I installed HDFView-3.1.2-win10_64-vs16.zip from this link: enter link description here, Visual C++ Redistributable Packages from this link: enter link description here and have added HDFViewer to…
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Swagger UI is not showing HTTPS scheme and SSL certificate is offloaded (is on Load Balancer)

My Swagger UI is not showing HTTPS scheme in schemes dropdown. SSL certificate is offloaded on the Load balancer, is there a way that swagger is aware of the SSL certificate and shows HTTPS scheme, or do I have to make any settings on the load…
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Wordpress and F5 WAF - Infinite loop due to SSL

I have a wordpress website on https and it was working fine without the implementation of F5 WAF on the server. But as soon as the WAF is enabled, the website goes onto an infinite loop. After debugging I found that the wordpress is doing 301…