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Sharath413
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Dec 09, 2020
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IP address exception

I'm new to F5 and we recently implemented WAF in one-arm mode. I'm getting quite a few complaints from web developers about some of their HTTP requests getting blocked. I was thinking if it's a bette...
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  • Lidev's avatar
    Lidev
    Dec 10, 2020

    Hello,

     

    if you consider IP address as being safe, you can set a address exception and categorized Wed Developpers IP Adresses as Trusted IP.

    Regards

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Lidev
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Dec 10, 2020

Hello,

 

if you consider IP address as being safe, you can set a address exception and categorized Wed Developpers IP Adresses as Trusted IP.

Regards

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    Sharath413
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    Dec 11, 2020

     Thanks for responding. I made the exception to just "never block the IP' but didn't add the IP as trusted IP. I was told that adding the IP as trusted will cause Big-IP to build policy signatures based on their traffic. I surely didn't want to do that.

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      Lidev
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      Dec 14, 2020

      OK Sharath413,

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