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Fabou_139732
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Nov 06, 2015

Problem configuring App Tunnel BIG-IP 11.5.1

Hi I have the requirement to give access to one web application for outside users so I was looking into APM to do that. Reading around it look like that Application Tunnel could solve my issue. The...
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Fabou_139732
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Nov 06, 2015

Ok I see what you mean, I will try it soon.

 

Any idea of what I need to do to make my current setting work?

 

  • Lucas_Thompson_'s avatar
    Lucas_Thompson_
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    Nov 06, 2015
    The plugins still work OK from IE 32-bit. Make sure you're using that version (that version is the default in Windows 7/8.x). It is still supported, but like you've mentioned, Chrome and FF no longer allow plugins like this. The Application Launch stuff essentially tells the client PC to launch an application. The purpose is to launch an app with parameters that specify the target endpoint. For example, "telnet %host% %port%" would launch telnet against the local loopback socket, which would be proxied via iSession to the target by APM.
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    Fabou_139732
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    Nov 10, 2015
    Do you mean that if I have the plugin working doing telnet 127.0.0.1 on the client PC would launch a telnet trough the tunnel to the target server? Also in the case that I can't get the plugin working are there any alternative for making app tunnel working i.e. Edge client?