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PeteTheFarmer_3
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Aug 01, 2017

Using dynamic IPs in a Virtual Server

Hi Team,   We use an Australian based SMS provider, whisper, to send OTPs to mobile devices. I've setup a http authentication server that constructs the SMS that sends the SMS' to Whisper's api.wh...
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PeteTheFarmer_3
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Aug 01, 2017

Nah, no users connect to this. There is a static VS for users. This setup is only for http authentication purposes (ie: the mechanism that sends an API string to api.whispir.com).

 

BigIP won't let me configure a https host in my http authentication server (ie get this error: 01071346:3: In AAA HTTP server (/Common/myportal_aaa_whispir_sms_gateway), Using Http auth agent against SSL backend is not allowed, please, create a layered virtual server with serverssl profile).

 

So I did - that's what I created with the help of some f5 support techs.

 

api.whispir.com only works with https, they reject http connections, so with the help of f5, I created a VS on port 80 for the IP destination address (ie: what api.whispir.com resolves to) and then use nodes and pool lists to communicate out on 443 to api.whispir.com.