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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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Is ADFS for internal CRM necessary if we already have an SSO for internet facing services?

I never had to deal with ADFS until now so not sure if I get it correctly. We will have an implementation of Dynamics CRM inside our network soon and we already use F5 Big-IP APM for SSO with other applications. Do someone know if we can just use…
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How can a system hold more then 65535 concurrent TCP connections?

As far as I know, a TCP/IP stack can only maintain an absolute maximum of 65535 concurrent connections; while reading the white-paper for some F5 BigIP load balancers, I see that these can hold open millions of concurrent connections; I am…
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Installing Deis in AWS without ELB

I'd like to install a Deis cluster in AWS but without using ELB, since we have already paid for an alternative (BigIP), and our network guys are comfortable with it. Is it easy to configure Deis not to use ELB, and rely on BigIP instead?
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F5 High Speed Logging and Logstash GROK

Im trying to format logs straight from our F5 using HSL and Logstash. I've copied the example configuration exactly from the site as it contains the majority of the information I wanted logstash example My F5 is now outputting logs to my…
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Load balancer F5 and sticky session

I have installed a web application on a clustered environment where the load is balanced by an F5 device. Unfortunately I do not know exactly its model, but hopefully this information is not necessary to answer my question. We were trying to…
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Most robust way of forwarding multiple URL via one IP

This is probably subjective but if anyone could suggest a robust solution for the following that would be fantastic. We have potentially multiple URL's in service which are currently 1:1 with Public IP addresses. The problem being that we will…
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Forward Akamai's True-Client-IP via F5 BigIP

Akamai returns client IP in True-Client-IP header. This can be disabled in Akamai settings so that Akamai will return client IP in HTTP-X-Forwarded-For header, but this will contain multiple IP addresses (Client IP, Proxy 1, Proxy 2, etc). I need to…
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Does the F5 LTM check every virtual server for every lookup?

I manage several F5 LTM devices which have a rapidly growing number of virtual servers configured (about 500 right now). I've noticed that when the device lists virtual servers it does so alphabetically, with no option to reorder them. This got me…
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F5 BigIP limiting the amount of sources able to connect to a virtual server

In an F5 bigIP LTM with sw version 11.4.1, is it possible to have multiple sources addresses for a virtual server? The objective is to limit the number of sources from where the virtual server can be reached. This virtual server balances an ftp…
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Server A can see B, but B can't see A

I am setting up a network with a CentOS client, a CentOS server and a BIG-IP. The network looks like this: (client) < -- > (BIG-IP) < -- > (server) The client is on a 10.10.20.x network. The server is on a 10.10.10.x network. The BIG-IP is on a…
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F5 Big-IP : pool monitors at member node level

BIG-IP 10.2.4 When configuring a pool, I can assign a monitor at pool-level. But I can also drill-down into each member node and assign a monitor. What is a use-case for assigning a health-monitor at a member-node level ? Wouldn't this defeat the…
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Any iControl API equivalent to 'b merge' in BIG-IP?

I want to deploy configurations (virtual server, pools) to my bigip server, based on the files which have same format as /config/bigip.conf. However, the iControl 'create' API for virtual server and pool only accept string values rather than the…
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F5 authentication using kerberos keytab

Our network gear use tacplus for authentication and authorization. tac itself authenticates using kerberos. For one of the projects we need automated login to a F5 device using a script. Does anyone know if it is possible for the script to generate…
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HTTP-CLASS-Redirecting traffic-F5

Can we redirect https traffic to a particular real server using http-class in F5? i.e whether http-class works with both http and https traffic.?
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Failure handling in Load balancing

Suppose I have two Tomcat instances load balanced using BIGIP or other similar solution. If once Tomcat instance goes down while it was serving few request, what happens to those requests? User gets an error in browser?
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