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F5_Newbie_28288
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Aug 05, 2016

F5 BIG-IP ASM Virtual Server

Hi,   I am newbie in F5. One of my customer has a web server. They want to protect their web server using F5 BIG-IP ASM. Can the virtual server IP address on F5 BIG-IP same with web server IP addr...
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Stephan_Mierau's avatar
Stephan_Mierau
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Aug 05, 2016

no, the f5 is a full proxy. The traffic flow would be client -> vip -> ASM -> self/floating ip f5 -> server and vice versa.