Re: BigIP controller - any issues?

From: Stan Scalsky (sscalskat_private)
Date: Thu Sep 30 1999 - 14:20:43 PDT

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    >On Thu, 30 Sep 1999 11:25:06 +0100, "Cleaver, Richard J" 
    ><Richard.Cleaverat_private> said:
    
    >It's a UNIX box under the covers, BSDI. They seem to have done a good
    >job of locking it down and are ssh-aware. Tho I was surprised to see
    >they had IP forwarding enabled so I could route right through it. 
    
    IP forwarding on BigIP has to be specifically enabled. Out of the box
    it is setup as default DENY. In other words, only those IPs and services
    setup with VIPs will get traffic. Also ICMPs are not passed, except for
    Fragment/Dont Fragment. Out of the box it does NOT run gated but it
    can. Out of the box F5 locks things down but gives you the option of
    bringing up a number of options that might affect your security position
    but also remember BigIP is NOT a FW and they dont sell it as one, it is a
    load balancer. You should still have a FW.
    
    -= stan
    



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