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Q&A and discussion posts around F5's BIG-IP's security and application delivery controller solutions. Ask about configuration, installation, performance or anything else you can think of.

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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Tunnel any kind of TCP traffic through HTTP/s

I am looking for a software to tunnel RDP or other binary TCP traffic through a HTTPS tunnel. Because many clients only have HTTP/S permitted (only port 80 and 443 open in the firewall). But there's a need to forward RDP (and other protocols) from…
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WCF, Metadata and BIGIP - Can I force the correct url for the WSDL items?

We have a WCF service hosted on ServerA which is a server with no-direct Internet access and has a non-Internet routable IP address. The service is fronted by BIGIP which handles SSL encryption and decryption and forwards the unencrypted request…
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Should dynamic query parameters be present in the Redirection URI for an OAuth2 (Autorization Code Grant Type)

Sources such as this Okta sponsored site (see "Per-Request Customization" section) mention that the redirect_uri parameter of a autorization request SHOULD NEVER have a dynamic query part (ex: for session matching uses). Quote: The server should…
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Add custom header to Amazon AWS ALB request

I would like to add a custom header to the request at the AWS ALB level. I am doing migration of some iRules from F5 to ALB and there are lots of custom iRules written in F5 to add custom headers based on some conditions and I have to keep it…
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Any way to simulate F5 BIG-IP server?

We have a potential client that uses F5 BIG-IP servers for load balancing. In determining if we could cleanly integrate our product with their Load Balancers, I started looking at the API's provided by F5. The problem is, I can't run any custom…
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Least connection Load Balancing method in F5 not distributing traffic to all members

I'm new to troubleshooting load distribution on Load-balancer and need your help to troubleshoot one issue. There are 11 members of the pool but I see the request are going to only 2-3 at a time. When those servers gets exhausted due to load,I see…
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Grails spring security redirects to wrong port

In my Grails app (2.3.11), my login page sends an Ajax request to: https://myurl/my-app/j_spring_security_check but spring-security redirects to: https://myurl:80/my-app/login/ajaxSuccess This results in a timeout error (because port 80 is added…
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F5 LTM on the same subnet

I am new to F5 BIG-IP, i can create the Virtual Server with pool and pool members to create a LTM for subnet A Virtual Server to subnet B servers. But when i configure the Virtual Server to load balance the servers on the same subnet, it just not…
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F5 BIG-IP: Log Profile disabled

Currently I'm setting up a F5 BIG-IP instance and I'm trying to harden the system security-wise. On one virtual server I noticed that "Log Profile" was set to "disabled". What does this exactly mean? Does this mean that absolutely no (security)…
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REST Service not enabled in Bigip 12

I have BigIP VE 12.1 installed and activated with lab licence. I couldn't access it using Rest API. I researched questions related this and checked "service restjavad it is running fine still rest calls not getting any response. someone please help…
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F5 Load balancer over web server

I have to derive the infrastructure set up for my company. I was confused if a web server(Apache) can be replaced by F5 load balancer. Are all the capabilities a web server possess/handles can be handled/possessed by F5 load balancer. What i know is…
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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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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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BigIP F5 UCS Backup via RestAPI and PowerShell

I am trying to back up the BigIP F5 device using RestAPI/PowerShell and I can't figure out how to download a "Partial Content"-based file. I can grab the 1st chunk using: $result = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri…
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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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