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jake_macabuag_4
Nimbostratus
Jun 17, 2010Cannot access some https sites
Hi Guys,
I have an issue with this implementation of LC 1600 9.4.8. The F5 LC is sitting in between the router and the firewall. After a week of implementation, client says that some of the users cannot access some HTTPS sites. I instructed the client to connect the laptop directly to F5 to check if it would work, and indeed it is working. Our configuration:
vs_outbound
any:any
perfL4
snat enabled
address and port trans disabled
The problem also is that not all users are affected and not all sites are problematic. When I do tcpdump on the internal and external interface of the F5, I can see the https traffic traversing our F5 unit. I insist to check their firewall because the last transaction is going to the firewall and also it is working if I connect directly to F5. We tried adding outbound https:
vs_https
any:443
snat enabled
address and port translation disabled
The problem was resolved by adding this config. Problem is weird and the solution is also weird. Am I wrong to say that it is not an F5 issue or am I right when I said that what we did was just a workaround?
Since we already have the VS any:any, I assume that all traffic will be allowed to go outside. But base on our experience, we need to create specific virtual server for ftp, smtp and now https just for them to pass F5. By the way, this is a migration project from old bigip 1000 to Big ip 1600. So they cant help but compare their old infra to the new one.
Hope you could shed light on this issues.
Thanks guys
- hoolio
Cirrostratus
Hi Jake, - jake_macabuag_4
Nimbostratus
Yeah, even F5 support cannot understand why do we need to create additional entry per port - hoolio
Cirrostratus
Those look right. I think the next step in troubleshooting would be to capture tcpdumps of a faliure. If you figure this out with Support, can you reply here for reference - jake_macabuag_4
Nimbostratus
Additional info, the internal side of F5 is connected to cisco asa 5.5 v7.2, So my suspect (hoping) that it is an issue with the firewall.ü
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