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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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SecureCookies, HTTPOnly cookies, .Net, and SSL offloading

So I've been looking into implementing HttpOnly and SecureCookies in my web environment. I have an F5 as the load balancer and a couple of C# web applications hosted in iis 7.5 for the website. The .net applications are an old asp.net legacy…
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F5 SSL offloading custom 404 page

We have an F5 that we want to use for SSL termination in front of our JBoss servers with NetIQ auth, and we have the configuration working for all normal traffic. The problem is with our custom 404 page. The static site on which the page is hosted…
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iControl REST Remote Authentication BIG-IP v12

I have an issue while trying to use remote authentication on iControl REST API. I have tried to configure remote authentication using the following article Configuring Remote User Authentication and Authorization and have tried to make REST API…
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How do I measure initiated SSL connections per second on IIS?

I am running a stress test on a web application that is being proxied by IIS/Win2008R2 and want to measure the number of SSL Transactions Per Second going across it. In production I have a F5 load balancer that throttles connections to its license…
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Configuring f5 to retry requests on timeout

I have a pool of servers and f5 BIG-IP loadbalancer in front of them. I want to configure the following behaviour: if one server haven't answered on http request in e.g. 1 second request will be resent to another server. Is it possible?
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Big IP orphaned connections

Let me state up-front that I know just enough about networking at this level to be dangerous, so if I say something stupid, please be kind. I am using a Big IP load balancer in front of 3 Apache servers. The 3 Apache servers are all on the same…
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What are the licensing requirements for the Big IP F5 Load balancer?

I've seen older f5's on ebay for about $500 for a pair. I've heard they work great for load balancing, but I'm trying to figure out what the ongoing costs for them are. Does anyone know what kind of licensing and/or subscription you need to get for…
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F5 allow user to access iControl RESTful API

I'm trying to interact with an F5 load balancer using the REST api. I have verified that iControl is enabled, however when I try and run a command, I am told that I am unauthorized. curl -k -u someone -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X GET…
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Configuring an F5 BIG-IP configuration on amazon EC2

I am a newbie to f5 BIG-IP. I want to configure an f5 BIG-IP instance to load balance 2 apache webservers under it. I am following the documentation in following link. But not clear how to route traffic from f5 instance to Web servers under…
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How a F5 can handle multiple virtual IP address on different network?

I'm confusing when design an F5 system. I have to using F5 with two networks subnet, for each network we need a virtual IP. The problem is F5 have only one default gateway so I only can choose one of those networks router as default gw and the…
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F5 routes all REST requests from one client to same host

I have a rest webservice clustered behind an F5 using SSL Termination, SSL persistence and the balancing is "least connections". This service sees millions of messages per day. The vast majority of our clients post maybe a few messages per minute.…
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F5 Big-IP and WSS WebSockets

We have a F5 Big-IP load balancer that handles the SSL, so the servers behind it get HTTPS rather than HTTP (SSL off loading). I don't have version handy, but in the login page I can see "Copyright 1996-2010", so I guess it is not latest version…
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Problem while adding a route to F5 BigIp version 9

I want to add a route for outbound traffic from BigIp v9. I have WANem machine configured which simulates the network traffic and want to add this as a router between BigIp9 virtual server and Client. This WANem is running on Knoppix 5. I have tried…
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F5 Big-IP : iRule optimization of nested switch

F5 BIG-IP 10.2.4 My iRule needs to exact-match on host and wild-card match on path. when HTTP_REQUEST { switch [string tolower [HTTP::host]] { "internal.mycompany.com" { switch -glob [string tolower [HTTP::path]] { "/api1/*"…
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F5 Packet filtering or iRules or both?

I need to set-up a custom filter for a virtual host that requires both ip address checks and URL check. Like so: _if_ _(_ http-request matches url _and_ ip is from certain host/net range _)_ _or_ ip is from a certain VIP range _then_…
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