4.2.1. Deployment use case¶
A Joint F5 + Flowmon solution is deployed “out-of-path” and provides an out-of-band DDoS mitigation of L3-4 volumetric DDoS attacks. It’s a simple and convenient solution that leverages the existing IT infrastructure to provide traffic flow information.
Flowmon Collector appliance receives NetFlow/sFlow/IPFIX from edge routers while Flowmon DDoS Defender uses i/eBGP/Flowspec to route the traffic to F5 DHD/AFM appliance. F5 DHD/AFM DDoS profile, VS and other parameters provisioned dynamically through iControl REST.
Pic.1 Solution Diagram
4.2.2. Lab blueprint setup¶
Lab blueprint is deployed in Oracle Ravello cloud with access from F5 UDF portal. All Flowmon elements are pre-configured, F5 AFM VE resources are provisioned and network is configured.
Pic.2 Lab blueprint
4.2.3. Licensing¶
BIG-IP is licensed automatically.
Evaluation license has been applied to Flowmon Collector/DDoS Defender. Please contact Lab admin if there are issues with any lab elements.
4.2.4. Other considerations¶
Note
Router1 is configured to export sFlow with sampling rate of 1