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I'm using F5 BIG-IP Edge VPN client on OS X Yosemite 10.10 and trying to find the best way to access the web, while connected
Has anyone found a solution, how to make it work? Maybe this could be an approach to setting up routes in memory?
The behavior of the application looks like this, from the beginning:
- backup of the original /var/run/resolv.conf
- provide a new resolf.conf from the vpn client
- checking the hash of resolv.conf, when failed - replace it with the provided by vpn client
Well, and since the application is running from the wheel user, I don't have the option to replace routs on the file level
Looking for community advice
Note: using VM for this purposes, doesn't seem good, because VPN client only works on MacOS and Windows operation systems, or at least the fixed version on Linux wasn't found
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Building on HBruijn's comment:
There are a few reasons this would not work:
Split Tunneling is not allowed and the VPN routes are preventing web browsing while on a full VPN tunnel (or policy is explicitly denying browsing while on VPN). This is configurable by your VPN administration team/person.
The VPN network is mirrored to your home LAN and VPN routing configurations are creating problems. This does happen from time to time when VPN networks override with home networks and complex internal network routing confuses the two. This usually happens when split tunneling IS allowed but the VPN think's your home network is the corporate VPN network. You'll get async routes and all sorts of fun issues there. Again, VPN team will need to work with you to resolve permanently.
Something is just wrong with the routing table provided by the VPN client. This again will fall on your VPN admins configuration of how the VPN network is allowed to route your home traffic.
And from HBruijn; You should usually allow for routing table changes to be made by the VPN so you can get proper access to resources. If Prohibit routing table changes during Network Access Connection is flagged, definitely disable. This is pretty important if you're not allowed to use split tunneling. You won't receive corporate routes to allow external traffic. I run macOS and the F5 VPN tunnel in full tunnel (no split) and it works fine. Corporate just asks that I don't stream Netflix while on VPN.
tl;dr - Your VPN team will need to address the configuration, routing, or browsing policies when the Edge client connects to corporate resources. You can one-off fix routing tables but it will reoccur until they address it permanently.
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My company just switched from Cisco VPN to an F5 Networks Big-IP Edge VPN infrastructure. F5 can provide clients for common operating systems, but unfortunately my company provides clients only for Windows and Mac OS-X while I'm currently using Linux (Ubuntu).
From what I understand, the Big-IP Edge Client is customized by/for each company itself, so it has to be provided by the company itself, but I may be wrong (I hope so).
Can I build/package/download a Linux client myself? If so, what information do I need in order to do so?
Should the answer be no, is there some way to use the Windows or Mac OS-X client to connect from my Linux (Ubuntu) box (e.g. a guest virtual windows machine used as a 'bridge' or 'proxy' for my host Linux box, or maybe Wine...)?
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I had the same problem. I installed VirtualBox in Linux (i use xubuntu) then I installed Windows10 within Virtual box. Once that was completed I then downloaded and installed the F5 Networks Big-IP Edge Client for Windows. this works really well; but it takes a little more time to startup a vpn session.
After some research I found that my assumption was largely wrong: the pre-packaged Big-IP Edge Client for Windows and for Mac received from my company, are standard clients only pre-configured with a (configurable) URL to connect to (I just saw one of my colleagues installing and using it).
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In the mean time I found a CLI Linux client from some different site than the F5 site (it is a University site that allows the students to connect to its VPN and has a downloadable Linux client). That client is a plain generic client, you only need to input the URL, the username and the password/PIN.
Using the URL I found in the previous step I was able to connect successfully.
So, for anyone having the same problem, the solution I suggest is the following: search the Internet for a Linux client (I found 2/3 sites), install it on your Linux box, discover the URL to connect to, and use the account you have been given by your company to establish the connection.
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