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Nimbostratus

Oct 05, 2017

F5 AS A TRANSPARENT PROXY FOR MOBILE USERS

What configuration can be done on F5 LTM (Only LTM in use in my environment) to enable it as Transparent Proxy for mobile users. My configuration is this : Mobile Proxy Users==>F5 (TRANSPAR...

application delivery

cloud

explicit forward proxy

Cirrocumulus

Oct 05, 2017

Depend on what functionality you are looking for to perform in the LTM. If you just want to pass the traffic, you can just create a forward virtual server with destination 0.0.0.0:0.

See this solution:

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K7595

However, if you looking to filter pages, as normally an Internet proxy does, you need APM/SWG module.

See this page:

https://f5.com/products/big-ip/secure-web-gateway-services-swgs