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arjun_6146
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Mar 04, 2014

F5 Application Security Manager Reverse Proxy Feature

Hi All,   I am a bit new to F5. Please help me confirm if F5 ASM (11.5.0) appliance includes Reverse Proxy Feature as a part of the default feature set. I am asking this as in Datasheet there is n...
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As long as your license includes LTM, then you'll have reverse proxy capability. I'm not sure it's possible to have ASM without LTM, so this shouldn't be an issue.

 

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Mar 04, 2014
The architecture of Big-IP is a proxy architecture. I run a stand alone ASM and yes traffic running through it is proxied, you get limited LTM functionality without a license for LTM, basically you are missing all the Load Balancing capability if you don't license LTM.