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helenio's avatar
helenio
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Dec 18, 2013

How can I follow a HTTPS connection from a specified client IP

Hello, I have a HTTP virtual server IP in production. Behind that Virtual server there is pool with 3 members. I'd like to troubleshooting connection from my ip client to server to see the entire flo...
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uni
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Dec 19, 2013

The version of tcpdump which comes with the latest versions of the BigIP software (not sure when it appeared, sorry. Certainly 11.4.0) there is an option to follow the associated flow. You need to specify a vlan in the interface, and add 😛 (no, that is not a smiley :P) For example

tcpdump -v -s0 -w my.cap -i external:p host 10.1.2.3

There are some other cool flags added to tcpdump too. Check the man page under the -i flag.

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Torti
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Dec 19, 2013
that sounds like a nice new feature. it's a pity, that we still can't run on 11.4 :-(