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bilucent
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Jan 25, 2017

BIG-IP, iRULE, and BGP peers

On BIG-IP DNS(GTM), I need to connect to various networks(ISPs) via BGP and then use the prefixes advertised dynamically in my iRules. Was wondering on the following approaches which I would apprecia...
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Leonardo_Souza
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Jan 25, 2017

In theory the information from ZebOS (imish is the shell for ZebOS), should be available from TMM (F5 system). You just need to find the correct command to get that information. I only found the route command, but does not have any command useful for your case:

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/irules.route.ashx

 

Here is the BGP documentation:

 

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/related/arm-bgp-command-reference-7-10-6.html

 

About your second questions, I don't think there is any iControlRest layer for imish. iControlRest is a layer on top of tmsh, so should not work with imish commands.

 

About v11 or v12, that is a long conversation. If you need a new feature in v12, just go with v12. If you just want stability, go for 11.5.X or 11.6.X. Read this solution as is very important if you are unsure about the version:

 

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K5903