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Cirrus

Jul 13, 2016

I need help with an iRule to restrict inbound connections to certain IPs

Hello F5 Experts. I am New to F5 and iRules, I am helping my team to troubleshoot an iRule Issue, Basically the Irule is already in place which is to allow only the IPs listed in the iRule to have ...

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Yann_Desmarest_

Nacreous

Jul 30, 2016

Hi,

You can use the following irule to disallow access to specific urls to users :

when HTTP_REQUEST {
  if { [string tolower [HTTP::path]] starts_with "/devicemanagement/enroll" or [string tolower [HTTP::path]] starts_with "/deviceservices/enrollment/airwatchenroll.aws" and ![class match [IP::client_addr] equals irdg-mdm-test] } {
      log local0. "[IP::client_addr] - Matched default policy: Access Denied"
      reject
      return
  }
}

This irule will allow IP addresses defined in the datagroup named irdg-mdm-test to access specified urls. Other IPs will be rejected.

Maybe, you can also change the

reject

command to something more user friendly like

HTTP::respond 403 content "Request Not Allowed"

Note : Pay attention that you don't have other irules, LTM policies or whatever else that bypass this irule processing.

Yann_Desmarest_

Nacreous

Jul 30, 2016

You may also expect something more scalable :

when HTTP_REQUEST {
  if { [class match [HTTP::path] contains url-mdm-test] and ![class match [IP::client_addr] equals irdg-mdm-test] } {
      log local0. "[IP::client_addr] - Matched default policy: Access Denied"
      reject
      return
  }
}

bmohanak_276891
Cirrus
Aug 01, 2016
Yann,

I have changed the iRule to above but connections are still being allowed when I try to access from an machine not from this list.
Yann_Desmarest_
Nacreous
Aug 02, 2016
Hi,

Hi updated the irule above. Can you check that you get the logs from the irule in the /var/log/ltm logfile ?

Do you have some proxy or reverse proxy between F5 and the client ?