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Mike_Sullivan_2
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May 31, 2012

V11 as a firewall?

I would like to move things around in my DMZs and "publish" interfaces as virtual servers between tiers on LTMs (no ASM or PSM). I thought this would improve performance as the services needed...
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jwham20
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Jun 25, 2012
@mike:

 

 

That's a tough one. I spent hours at RSA repeating the same conversation over and over:

 

 

attendee: "Hi, doing a firewall refresh, want to see about loadbalancing the new Firewalls with F5"

 

Me: "Why the extra gear? the F5 is a firewall"

 

attendee: "No you're not"

 

Me: "Why"

 

attendee:"umm, cause you're not"

 

.................

 

headdesk

 

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I took the approach of asking what constitutes a firewall in their mind, then taking that checklist and confirming the F5 v11 has all the functionality they listed.

 

 

As for a new icon... sweet! Come up with a cool one and send it in :)!

 

 

-Josh