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RAQS's avatar
RAQS
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Mar 24, 2021

Port Lock down | Impact

Hi All,   Hope your are doing great.   I am planning to restrict access on Self IP. Can you please help to understand the impact of port lock down when i change it from allow all to "None". ...
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Patrik_Jonsson
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Mar 28, 2021

When you lock down the ports you'll shut down everything except for a few exceptions.

The article recommends Default for self IPs used with Network failover or alternately using UDP port 1026.

 

I'd recommend running the HA services on dedicated VLANs.

 

The official KB is here:

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K17333

 

Kind regards,

Patrik