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Darren_Walker_2
Cirrus
Aug 30, 2017Options 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...
Arie
Altostratus
Oct 03, 2017Unless this changed fairly recently, the use geo-location database provided by F5 and included on the devices is limited by use. In short, it is not permitted to have the BIG-IPs convey any location-data to another device (e.g. pool members). Thus, the feature can be used only for location-based functionality on the BIG-IP itself.
In addition, the location-database that F5 includes is significantly less granular than the database that can be licensed separately (from F5's partner).
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