Forum Discussion

6 Replies

  • Hamish's avatar
    Hamish
    Icon for Cirrocumulus rankCirrocumulus

    A native (AFAIK) executable doesn't exist...

     

    The solution is use VMWare or Parallels and run a copy of windows. I did see one a while back written in a scripting language... Sorry, couldn't say which, but it might have been python). I'm not real sure what the status of it currently is though.

     

    (The reason it doesn't exist is because it was written in C)

     

    H

     

  • Try Sublime Text. You can set it up to work with multiple scripts including TCL.

     

  • I'm very surprised that such a successful company like f5 doesn't have more options for something so important like the iRule Editor. Forcing users to use the highly vulnerable, highly unreliable operating system Windows is like an oxy moron. f5 itself uses a flavor of linux to be as powerful as it is because the operating system is reliable, it has to be. Why would you not support the users to also have a reliable operating system to use an f5 product like the iRule Editor. It can't be that hard to develop a linux/mac friendly iRule editor.

     

  • Hamish's avatar
    Hamish
    Icon for Cirrocumulus rankCirrocumulus

    What's forcing you to use windows? If you WANT to use the fancy OPTIONAL GUI on windows do it. if you don't use the editor of your choice (emacs/vi/textedit/xywrite/etc) and import the iRule, or use the built-in editor on the web GUI...

     

    H

     

  • BigIP v12 has a built in editor now. Its not quite as nice as the DevCentral created one, but it is getting there. The iRule editor is community based, not F5 provided. Contributors are more then welcome to recreate it to make it work with other OS if they'd like. As Hamish indicated there are other editor out there that will work on Mac that recognize TCL. Also, F5 does not use a flavor of linux for its power. TMOS is a micorkernel that merely uses Linux to boot. The TMOS microkernel interacts directly with hardware. That's why BigIP is high performing a very hardened. If you look at the CVEs associated with the OpenSSL and Linux OS/tools, they are not immune from vast security holes.

     

  • Thanks for the information. Never knew the iRule Editor was community based and not provided by f5. Also very interesting that f5 uses TMOS / Linux. I know linux isn't free from security holes but in comparison to Windows its fort knox. Probably why so many businesses rely on Linux based servers for there functionality. Besides Active Directory you don't find the archaic operating system (Windows) running business critical applications.