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Jan 25, 2017

BIG-IP, iRULE, and BGP peers

On BIG-IP DNS(GTM), I need to connect to various networks(ISPs) via BGP and then use the prefixes advertised dynamically in my iRules. Was wondering on the following approaches which I would appreciate your input:

 

1- So the base question is, how can I fetch RIB information in my iRule? For instance, using IMSH to setup the BGP peering, and then use iRule with an script on the system to read the prefixes.(either event triggered or periodically)

 

2- How to use iControl/RestAPI to send prefixes to the F5 from an external machine?

 

3- And in regards with smarter control of BIGIP, what are the advantages on moving to bigip v12 against v11?

 

Thanks

 

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