What are F5 Access and BIG-IP Edge Clients?

tl;dr - F5 Access and BIG-IP Edge are VPN clients that connect to APM access policies for L3 network connectivity. Building on the DevCentral Basics article What is BIG-IP APM, a few quest...
Published Jul 15, 2017
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Aug 24, 2017

If you use F5 Access, that is going to tunnel your connection to your site. You can split tunnel it or go full VPN tunnel. You would use either/or in this case. If you don't need a traditional VPN tunnel, go with a web-top and use granular app access.

 

I only use it when connecting to resources that are not available via webtop.