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BigIP F5 HTTP Compression
We've got an F5 3400a device that we use to load balance web traffic and are trying to get HTTP compression working. We've created a profile that has HTTP compression enabled and assigned it to the ...
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does bigIP support sticky session
Does BIG IP support sticky sessions?
I have 2 apache's behind a Big IP box at my partner end. Need to know whether Big IP supports sticky sessions.
My apache has the sticky session enabled. All ...
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F5 Networks VPN
I have a Windows 2008 server which needs to establish a VPN connection to a company that is using a product from F5 Networks.
They sent a VPN URL, username and password to me for establishing the ...
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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 ...
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F5 rule deployment and source control
I'm a developer, our Ops team are currently doing F5 rules manually. And nothing is in a source control of any kind.
I want to get to the point where there is a single file in source control, which ...
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Outbound SSL connections via F5
I have applications that make HTTPS connections to other servers. Is it possible to somehow use Big-IP so that if the servers request a client certificate Big-IP will add it in? Or can the ...
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TCP Connection drop with F5
I am going bonkers trying to explain some TCP connection issues I am seeing. Can you pls help?
Consider this scenario:
Server A has IP: 10.20.30.40
Client B has IP: 50:60:70:80
A is hidden behind ...
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WCF custom certificate validator not invoked in BIG-IP environment
My WCF service with a custom client certificate validator works fine in my non load balanced environment.
When first deployed to BIG-IP environment there was a problem with it stripping SSL ...
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Unable to understand the current load balancer configuration for Cisco LB
Recently I came across to be working with Cisco CSS 11500 load balancer, I've always worked in past with F5 Big IP and its magical UI for configuration and thus never had to play around with config ...
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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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URL rewriting for WordPress Network (Multisite) subsite
We have an install of WordPress Network (Multisite) that has multiple blogs running under the url blogs.exampleurl.com where each subsite is blogs.exampleurl.com/site1 /site2 etc...
We have a user ...
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BigIP load balanced Rails 3 / Apache app not handling selective SSL correctly?
So here's the setup. I've got a Rails 3 application deployed to two servers, both
running Apache2, both with identical VirtualHost configs, both operating on Passenger.
There are a few routes in the ...
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complicated bonding and network question
I am not a network guy and would like to know how can I setup the below two configurations and their pros and cons:
Networking component: --
WAN: Cisco 2970 * 1
Load Balancer: F5 switch 1600 * 2
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How can I version controll my F5 Big-IP LTM load balancer configs while allowing changes via iControl or the web interface
Currently we use F5 Big-IP LTMs (IP load balancers) in our environment for load balancing. We have an existing process for making changes to LTM configs and pushing them out. I'm trying to figure out ...
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Is F5 Big-IP Routing by DNS Names (on one IP address and port) Possible?
In IIS, it is possible to listen for many DNS names on one IP address and port and then direct users to different websites based on the DNS name.
Is the same thing possible with F5 Big-IP devices?
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F5 LTM 10.2 and MSSQL 08R2
We have a mirrored SQL server setup with a pair of LTM's holding the mirror VIP. We're trying to setup a health monitor that runs a query against both servers in the mirror and directs traffic to the ...
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Big IP F5 Basics (show run/show conf/term len 0)
I've tried to find the basics in a Big IP manual but it seems to me the device is marketed towards GUI users only.
Meanwhile I want to write a few scripts to automate tasks on the load balancer. ...
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Any load balancers using Chrome's JavaScript engine?
F5 has TCL which is horrific to program. A10 copied.
Are there any programmable load balancers out there that are looking forward? Node.js seems to have blazed the trail and proven it works and ...
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Creating CNAME to delegated domain
We are trying to configure F5 to do load balancing on 4 sub domains similar to this article.
For Example
prod.wip.example.com. NS F5NS1.example.com.
prod.wip.example.com. NS ...
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F5/BigIP rule to redirect affinity-bound users from INACTIVE pool node to other ACTIVE node
We have several server nodes set up for the end users of our system and because we don't use any kind of session replication in the app servers, F5 maintains affinity for users with the ACTIVE node ...
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NTLM, Kerberos and F5 switch issues
I'm supporting an IIS based application that is scaled out into web and application servers. Both web and applications run behind IIS. The application is NTLM capable when IIS is configured to ...
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Connection pooling through an F5 Big-Ip SQL VIP
I've got a Big-IP pool managing a couple SQL servers in an active/inactive rollover approach - there's only ever one in the pool at a time.
Initially I was enabling/disabling the nodes in the pool, ...
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How-To Configure Weblogic, Agile PLM and an F5 LTM
Agile, Weblogic, and an F5 walk into a bar ...
I've got this
Agile PLM v 9.3
Running on WebLogic, two managed
servers.
An F5 BigIP LTM.
We're upgrading from Agile v 9.2.1.4 running on OAS.
The ...
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SQL instance through F5 BigIP VIP
We have a SQL 2008 clustered named instance Server01\instance02. The port is set to static 1466. We'd like to be able to connect using the name through a F5 Big IP Virtual IP.
We've set up a VIP ...
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Set up DNS or F5 VIP to send traffic to a specific port [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How to use DNS to redirect domain to specific port on my server
I have a clustered SQL instance set up at SERVER01\dev08
It's assigned to a static port of 1466. Can I ...
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Proxy SSL from load balancer
A server admin who is setting up a load balancer asked me if I wanted to:
Host SSL certs directly on web servers
or, Proxy SSL from the load balancer
I've only done the former implementation. Can ...
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Testing strategies for f5 bigip
I am a developer who is used to being able to test and debug code.
Occasionally I have to make changes to our load balancer configuration. As far as I can see, if I mess this up it could stop the ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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What is the downside to sticky sessions with load balancers?
we have a web farm of IIS7 machines. Works great. In front of them is an F5 Big-IP hardware load balancer. Also working fine :)
Now, currently we're using an ASP.NET State Service to handle our ...
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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 ...
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Long HTTP Get and Instant Response
We have an ASP.Net 3.5 Application on IIS7.
On our preview server, it runs with almost instant gets and responses (~1 second from get to the page displaying).
We have a production environment with 5 ...
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F5 Networks iRule/Tcl - Escaping UNICODE 6-character escape sequences so they are processed as and reinserted as the 6-character sequence?
We are trying to get an F5 BIG-IP LTM iRule working properly with SharePoint 2007 in an SSL termination role. This architecture offloads all of the SSL processing to the F5 and the F5 forwards ...
