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Does the Big-IP use its management IP address to query the internet for F5 updates?
I'm seeing my F5 try to query the internet to check for updates after I manually pressed "Check Now" from the update check page. It's currently trying to reach out to the internet from its Self-IP, not the management address. Should the F5 being using its Self-IP by default to query that update server out in the internet or should it be using its management IP address? I ask because I currently have a static default route on the F5 that says if you're going to 0.0.0.0, take your default gateway at 10.251.12.1 (the default gateway for the Self-IP). Is this why it's trying to source the request from that address or would it be doing it by default anyway even if I didn't have that default route set?
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Sarah_258804
May 09, 2016 Place Technical Forum
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LTM Update Check behind proxy
All, I have multiple F5 LTM VEs being used as LTM ADCs that I need to update, all of which are in customer environments with upstream proxies that can't be bypassed. All of them say "no response from update server" but I can resolve, and ping and there are no active 443 ACLs preventing traffic. It looks like it's complaining about certificates? I've seen a couple devcentral posts about this, but no real resolution. I just want to check for updates, that shouldn't be that hard right? Any advise? Thanks,
MH1_273408
Jul 06, 2017 Place Technical Forum
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