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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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What is the downside to sticky sessions with load balancers?

We have a web farm of IIS7 machines which work great. In front of them is an F5 Big-IP hardware load balancer, also working fine :) (source: www.f5.com) Currently we're using an ASP.NET State Service to handle our OutProc state. This is required…
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Changing node IP addresses in F5 BigIP configuration

I need to re-ip about 600 servers, which is bad enough by itself, but I've automated the entire process except for one part: F5 configuration. In all the documentation I can find, there is nothing about changing a node's IP address via the SOAP…
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How to tune TCP for high-frequency connections between two nodes

I've been scratching my head for the past few days, trying to come up with a solution for the following problem: In our data center we have a F5 running on BigIP hardware that acts as a single ingress point for HTTPS requests from client machines in…
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F5 Load Balancer Resends Request On Timeout

Let me preface this by saying I am not a systems administrator, I'm a programmer. Recently, our systems administrators installed F5 load balancers. Since then, I've noticed that any time a request times out and ends up throwing a 500, the load…
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Is it generally better to compress content on the proxy server or the app server?

We're using an F5 for load balancing and SSL proxying. Behind it we're serving up java applications with Tomcat instances. These are fairly small applications - hundreds of concurrent users. I'd like to compress some of the content, and I'm…
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For SSL bridging, do HTTPS backends verify that the load balancer is using the same private key? If so, how?

We are using the F5 to perform load balancing. When using SSL bridging instead of termination, we generally use a wildcard on the front-end and a regular SSL cert on the HTTPS backend. However, there's some belief among some colleagues that, for…
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F5 Big-IP, X-Forwarded-For and IIS Logs

I've got an F5 Big-IP that is mangaged by our hosting provider. It's dedicated to our private VLAN, etc. Works great :) We requested them to add in an X-Forwarded-For HTTP-Header field. They've done that and we can now access that in the code.…
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HAProxy: session stickiness triggered by response header possible?

I'm investigating HAProxy as a possible replacement for F5. F5 is capable of persisting a session based on a response header value: when HTTP_RESPONSE { set session [HTTP::header X-Session] if {$session ne ""} { persist add uie $session …
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How can I disable and re-enable machines in a BIG-IP pool via ssh?

I can't seem to find any simple examples of disabling and re-enabling machines using the ssh interface. Can someone give me a brief example or a pointer to decent documentation?
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is there a standard for chaining x-forwarded-for headers?

IETF RFC 2616 Section 4.2 allows a request to contain multiple headers with the same field-name as long as chronological order of insertion is preserved and their values can be converted into single header with a comma-separated list of…
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Load balancing with F5 Big-IP using only a single interface

I've been tasked with configuring our F5 Big-IP LTM. It's running 9.4.8. I've read through the docs a bit and I'm a little confused. It specifies that there are two default VLANs: internal and external. The problem is that the servers that I want…
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F5 Load Balancer and SIEM

I am looking for information on whether F5 can forward syslog info to a SIEM such as arclight or Qradar. I have heard that you can only send unencrypted traffic on port 80 but you cant forward anything encrypted. Is this true. Has anyone else ran…
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Application Fail over not working in apache 2.2 web server configured with BIG IP (f5) load balancer

I am using Apache 2.2 in front of my JBOSS 5.2 application server in a cluster configuration . The two nodes of the cluster configuration resides on different host . This configuration is hosted on Linux servers . In this configuration I am using a…
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301 redirect Rule For Load Balance F5 BigIp

I have a load balancer F5 Big ip for my website. Currently, I am having 302 redirect in place; however, I wanted to apply 301 but dont know how. For example: My website (abc.com) when typed 302 redirects to abc.com/index and when typed www.abc.com…
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Possible to redirect from HTTPS to HTTP behind load-balancer?

I have a basic ASP.NET application that sits behind an F5 load-balancer. Incoming SSL requests (over HTTPS) terminate at the load-balancer and all internal communication between the load-balancer and my application servers is unsecure (over…
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