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  • You can block source IP addresses, but you cannot, at the BIG-IP, block by user. BIG-IP does not perform ssh offloading, and as such, cannot read the username (which is encrypted).

     

  • Unhappily, no. Again, the problem is that ssh starts with a handshake, after which all following data are encrypted. The encrypted stream includes authentication material (including username and password). The BIG-IP cannot read the encrypted stream because it is effectively a "man-in-the-middle".