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starboy
Cirrus
CirrusF5 LTM and WAF module for the same endpoints
Hi all I have F5 BIG-IP Hardware appliance and I have LTM and WAF module enabled and I want to use both modules and I want to ask if it is possible if I can use load balancing and WAF for the same s...
This works out of the box, no worries to have. You may configure yout LTM infrastructure first to make sure everything is OK before applying the WAF policy to the VS. Standard guides for LTM and ASM are sufficient.
Technically, when you apply ASM policy to a VS a local traffic policy is assigned to the VS and takes care of handing traffic to the ASM module which then either stop the request (if configured to do so) or hand it back to the LTM module.
Amine_Kadimi
MVP
MVPThis works out of the box, no worries to have. You may configure yout LTM infrastructure first to make sure everything is OK before applying the WAF policy to the VS. Standard guides for LTM and ASM are sufficient.
Technically, when you apply ASM policy to a VS a local traffic policy is assigned to the VS and takes care of handing traffic to the ASM module which then either stop the request (if configured to do so) or hand it back to the LTM module.