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Haitao_Huang_17's avatar
Haitao_Huang_17
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Nov 01, 2014

iRule Editor for MAC

This question probably has been asked for many times, but I wasn't able to find it yet :(.   Would you point me to a good downloadable or solution? Thank you! - Haitao  
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Brad_Parker
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Nov 03, 2015

BigIP v12 has a built in editor now. Its not quite as nice as the DevCentral created one, but it is getting there. The iRule editor is community based, not F5 provided. Contributors are more then welcome to recreate it to make it work with other OS if they'd like. As Hamish indicated there are other editor out there that will work on Mac that recognize TCL. Also, F5 does not use a flavor of linux for its power. TMOS is a micorkernel that merely uses Linux to boot. The TMOS microkernel interacts directly with hardware. That's why BigIP is high performing a very hardened. If you look at the CVEs associated with the OpenSSL and Linux OS/tools, they are not immune from vast security holes.