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Igor_Grushevski
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May 18, 2013

Acces to Web Management Portal of F5 through SSH tunnel

Dear experts, please, help to solve the problem related to the connection to the web GUI of F5 through the SSH tunnel with enabled port forwarding feature.   The reason why I need such thing - our...
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nitass
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May 18, 2013
So I need to know for what kind of port need to make forwarding in the SSH tunnel to access F5 web gui successfully?it works fine here. i only configured local port forwarding to bigip port 443.

this is my post request/response header. 

POST /tmui/logmein.html? HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/x-ms-application, image/jpeg, application/xaml+xml, image/gif, image/pjpeg, application/x-ms-xbap, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, */*
Referer: https://localhost:1212/tmui/login.jsp
Accept-Language: en-US
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; InfoPath.3; MS-RTC LM 8; .NET4.0E)
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Host: localhost:1212
Content-Length: 27
Connection: Keep-Alive
Cache-Control: no-cache
Cookie: JSESSIONID=B8B62933251093015F0045B31C1648F7; f5advanceddisplay=""

HTTP/1.0 302 Found
Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 13:29:38 GMT
Server: Apache
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
Set-Cookie: BIGIPAuthCookie=E478E0591018427D1E412AC98E779A490A83CD0F; path=/; Secure;
Set-Cookie: BIGIPAuthUsernameCookie=admin; path=/; Secure;
Location: /
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Length: 164
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1