References
References
Section titled “References”Official Documentation
Section titled “Official Documentation”- L3/L4 Routed DDoS Mitigation Guide — Step-by-step guide for enabling routed L3/L4 DDoS protection in F5 Distributed Cloud.
- K000147949: Initial Routed Configuration Setup — F5 Knowledge Base article for initial on-premises checklist.
- BIG-IP TMOS Routing Administration — Dynamic Routing — Reference chapter covering BGP4, OSPFv2/v3, IS-IS, RIPv1/v2/RIPng, BFD, and ECMP.
Technical Articles
Section titled “Technical Articles”- Configuring a GRE Tunnel Using BIG-IP — DevCentral walkthrough for building a GRE tunnel between BIG-IP systems.
- A Guide to F5 Volumetric (Routed) DDoS Protection — How F5’s routed DDoS service uses behavioral analytics and global scrubbing centers.
- Protect Your Applications Using F5 Distributed Cloud and Fast ACLs — Configuring Fast ACLs for packet-level traffic filtering.
- F5 Distributed Cloud DDoS Auto-Mitigation — Enabling automatic DDoS protection on HTTP load balancers.
Service & Solution Overviews
Section titled “Service & Solution Overviews”- F5 Distributed Cloud DDoS Mitigation — Managed Service Description (PDF) — Scope, responsibilities, and delivery methodology.
- F5 Distributed Cloud DDoS Mitigation — Solution Overview (PDF) — Architecture diagrams for routed (BGP) and proxy (DNS) modes.
- Tour of Routed (L3/L4) DDoS Protection in F5 Distributed Cloud — DevCentral video walkthrough of the routed DDoS protection console.
Standards
Section titled “Standards”- RFC 5082 — Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (GTSM) — IETF standard defining GTSM for control-plane protection.
- RFC 6164 — Using 127-Bit IPv6 Prefixes on Inter-Router Links — Recommends /127 prefixes for IPv6 point-to-point links.
Analyst Reviews
Section titled “Analyst Reviews”- Gartner Peer Insights — F5 Distributed Cloud DDoS Mitigation — Verified ratings and feedback from enterprise users.