Nikoolayy1
Mar 21, 2021MVP
F5 ASM/WAF in a transparent bridge Reverse Proxy mode
I think that this is good to know. Many WAF vendors nowadays say things like Reverse Proxy/WAF in transperant bridge mode and say that only a few other vendors can do it. The F5 device VIP with a destination host ip is considered an explicit Reverse Proxy because the F5 changes the destination IP, so that it matches the pool member. If we just disable the address translation and use a wildcard VIP we have the called transparent Reverse Proxy/WAF and F5 can do this from version 11 :)
Here is the article: