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Darren_Walker_2's avatar
Darren_Walker_2
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Aug 30, 2017

Options for geoip data like country and city information (from Digital Element).

We have a contract with Digital Element where we can go to their portal and get the F5GeoIPCity2.dat. Directly from F5 we download the ISP.dat, Org.dat and IPv6.dat. Is there a reason why we have a m...
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Stanislas_Piro2's avatar
Stanislas_Piro2
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Sep 01, 2017

Hi,

 

I guess you misunderstand the article.

 

Geoip feature is not a F5 feature but a OEM database provided by digital elements and which is included in F5 licenses with limited data.

 

Most f5 customers want country information, so F5 won't pay OEM license to digital elements for all customers for a feature they don't need!

 

If F5 have to pay full database for only 1% of customers, prices of other 99% licenses would grow up!