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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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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F5 SSL session cache reuse with a spring boot application

We are running a spring boot application with embedded tomcat. The application on its own works fine. When we introduced a F5 LOAD Balancer to load-balance the traffic, our throughput went down. When we connect to the server directly we can see…
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F5 Load Balancer Persistence Profile How to determine Timeout setting Value

We are using F5 Load Balancer in our ASP.net Application and are using Source address affinity persistence persistence profile. The default value of timeout setting for this profile is 180 seconds. But because of that user getting session time out…
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Obtaining External IP with ASP.NET Core 2.1

I am attempting to obtain similar information as found on https://www.whatismybrowser.com. I specifically am looking for the external and local IP addresses. This is the .NET Core code that I am using to obtain this…
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useRequestHeadersForMetadataAddress in WCF is not working

I have WCF service which is deployed on IIS of my local server. The clients will access my service via F5 (load balancer). mean they will call this url "https://www.something.com:1600/Service/test.svc". now they see WSDL. inside WSDL, my local url…
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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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Connection reset load balancer on uploading file size greater tha 10GB

I am currently working on a requirment where we require to upload file of size 10 GB or greater.As per the requirment first of all file need to uploaded in server .Then need to be transfered to A FTP server . Once the file is completely transfered…
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WCF behind f5.. URL does not refer to the public domain

I am new to WCF and have been having an issue with having my WCF service behind f5 showing the correct URLs (with the public hostname) in the WSDL. The request is going through the following path: Client ---(HTTPS)---> F5 ---(HTTPS)--->…
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Python Import CSV to python and Create mutilple VIP on F5

I have to do bulk changes in F5 box using python, I have syntex for creating single Virtual from python, But i want to do it for around 300 +, where inputs are in .CSV with 10 + columns. 300 Rows. So the commands has to fetch the data from row 1…
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C# LDAP SSL Logon issue on F5 VIP name when LdapEnforceChannelBinding=1 or 2

I have C# Windows Form application to test the LDAP SSL authentication. Here is the code. First, I made a function. using System.DirectoryServices; private bool VerifyDomainUserUsignLDAP(string UserName, string Password, string Domain,string mode,…
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IE11 loses session cookie when the load balancer F5 is used

We are using Confluence with the F5 load balancing and quite often IE11 loses the session. When we inspect the call sequence IE11 is nicely sending the JSESSIONID cookie, but suddenly it doesn't send the JSESSIONID cookie and the server responses…
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Service principal name changes in kerberos

Not sure what is happening since there are multiple moving parts here. We have a cloudera cluster for hdfs, hadoop, impala, hbase. We also have an F5 loadbalancer in front of all our impala servers. We are trying to secure the servers/cluster with…
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MQ channel F5 reroute

I would like to know if it is possible to point a MQ Sender channel to a F5 Load balancer VIP address, rather than to a concrete MQ Server IP address and have the message delivered to one of two MQ servers in the F5 Cluster resources group. There…
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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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Choosing between software load balancer and hardware load balancer

I wonder if there are any situations where one would prefer software load balancer over hardware load balancer or vice-versa. I've played around with f5, A10, Nginx, and HAproxy briefly, and the only marginal difference I was able to notice was the…
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