The BIG-IP Edge Client for Windows utilizes various services to establish Network Access, App Tunnels and Optimized Applications, and Remote Desktops. Individual client-side components work together to. Through the partne rship, F5 has developed an F5 BIG-IP Edge Client for Mac OS and both the F5 BIG-IP Edge Client and BIG-IP Edge Portal Apps for the Apple iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Edge Client is not supported when Windows 10 Device Guard is enabled. Linux Operating Systems F5 Networks supports all 32-bit x86 and 64-bit x86_64 Linux operating systems (OS) with enabled Kernel support for PPP interfaces and libc version 2 or later, running Firefox 34 or Chrome 40*. F5 BIG-IP Edge Client Setup for MAC Systems AC Systems August 30, 2018 Page 8 NOTE: You must have an RSA token to use F5 APM since it uses RSA SecurID authentication for access. In the RSA SecurID Username text box, type your username (the username is the same as your network username).

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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.

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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.

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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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