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F5 Distributed Cloud - Mitigation for Cross Tenant Origin Exposure (CTOE)

F5 Distributed Cloud (XC) offers a suite of powerful features designed to simplify the lives of administrators and engineers. A key aspect of this ease of use comes from shared objects, such as Regio...
Published Oct 28, 2024
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Distributed Cloud
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Oct 31, 2024

In example 3, why is a public IP still advertised in-front of the CE?  From my experience, the CE creates an egress tunnel that disallows inbound NAT.

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It's an indicator that a public IP is still necessary to establish the tunnel with the RE's. The public IP doesn’t necessarily imply open inbound access but is more of a functional component for creating the egress tunnel while still preventing inbound NAT.

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