Package Details: f5vpn 7250.2024.1008.1-2

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/f5vpn.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: f5vpn
Description: VPN client using the Point-to-Point Protocol to connect to F5Networks BIG-IP APM
Upstream URL: https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K32311645#link_04_05
Licenses: Commercial
Provides: f5vpn
Submitter: zrhoffman
Maintainer: zrhoffman
Last Packager: zrhoffman
Votes: 12
Popularity: 0.21
First Submitted: 2019-12-27 08:37 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-11-21 20:16 (UTC)

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vcaselli commented on 2022-05-30 16:38 (UTC)

Thank you @zrhoffman, but the protocol f5-vpn or f5-epi is not under my control. I suppose it is built by the customer's host. I also tried to capture the url, change the protocol and give the command explicitly


f5vpn f5-vpn://<URL>

but nothing happens. Instead if I give 


xdg-open f5-vpn://<URL>

something happens: the F5 icons bounces as if starting, but then stops and nothing happens, no errors.

One question: since the error I wrote in my first comment, is there a chance that on the server side they put a constraint on using 7183,2020,108,205 client version?

zrhoffman commented on 2022-05-30 12:08 (UTC)

@vcaselli It's worth nothing that the URL scheme you gave is f5-epi://, but the package only supports f5-vpn://.

If I change f5-vpn:// to f5-epi:// in my own URL, it segfaults:

QObject::connect: Cannot connect (nullptr)::Failure(QString) to f5::qt::AutoUpdater::InstallFailed(QString)
QObject::connect: Cannot connect (nullptr)::Success() to f5::qt::AutoUpdater::InstallSuccess()
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

So it needs to be f5-vpn://, not f5-epi://.

zrhoffman commented on 2022-05-30 09:59 (UTC)

@vcaselli I just tested the package and it works for me. Since you have a support question, maybe someone at https://community.f5.com/t5/technical-forum/bd-p/TechnicalForum can help.

vcaselli commented on 2022-05-30 09:40 (UTC)

Hi, I have used successfully this package for several months on Arch Linux. Since a few days I cannot connect with the following error:


f5-epi://externalgw.customer-site.it?server=externalgw.customer-site.it&version0=7183,2020,108,2059&id0=%7B45B69029-F3AB-4204-92DE-D5140C3E8E74%7D&package0=/public/download/InstallerControl.cab&version1=7120,2015,1230,1&id1=Service:F5+Networks+Component+Installer&package1=/public/download/2015/InstallerService.cab&version2=7183,2020,108,2059&id2=Service:F5+Networks+Component+Installer&package2=/public/download/InstallerService.cab&version3=7183,2020,108,2059&id3=%7B57C76689-F052-487B-A19F-855AFDDF28EE%7D&package3=/public/download/f5InspectionHost.cab&version4=7183,2020,108,2059&id4=Service:MachineCertService&package4=/public/download/MachineCertService.cab&version5=7183,2020,108,2059&id5=Service:F5InspectorService&package5=/public/download/f5is.cab&protocol=https&port=443&sid=440da0e8aaab60ed904309c2ee1863f0

(by the way, on Windows it is all ok)

what can I do? I am willing to rebuild the package if needed, as long as I can get some hint on what to change. Thank you very much

zrhoffman commented on 2022-03-28 16:34 (UTC)

Hi @dyonysos, from my testing, vpn.f5.com is still on 7213.2021.0526.1. vpn.tcu.edu seems to be the only mirror I am aware of using 7220.2022.0308.1 at this point, so I updated the package to use it.

I don't know (for the moment) how I can contribute myself, but I hope these infos will allow you to udpate quickly :)

We can get the sums pretty easily from makepkg --geninteg, so if someone just marks the package as out-of-date, I get notified and can update the package soon afterwards.

dyonysos commented on 2022-03-28 11:54 (UTC) (edited on 2022-03-28 11:54 (UTC) by dyonysos)

Hello @zrhoffman,

I tried locally to update the package with one of the latest. Here's the info to upgrade your PKGBUILD:

pkgver=7220.2022.308.1
source_x86_64=("linux_${pkgname}-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}.${CARCH}.rpm::https://vpn.f5.com/public/download/linux_${pkgname}.${CARCH}.rpm")
sha512sums=('f2ca5fd5052b307c147ac315eb0cda45a6eaf071de30eef6841c74dac239c2d3bc5a0e1513e4bbd5b3057384676b346428609cb366c3d1086acda982acde7a61'
            '51ee6ca353685de98b5e87bf44de9605006190cc56ae4612c39f9f4e8b22d89b5bfab6cba09b740bb799fa74ce3a8054c533f807473b13c2c4da3683da4fef4c')
sha512sums_x86_64=('6c9c597f19d2c1fb789d2613279303f9cca1d26c3bdf90c7cd1c857e35b143ecd46e9592b018f3eb1ad51a61286f7462d650a88079d2aaee4226ec60236f90b4')
b2sums=('c864e69799ffc4c13bf8af7d76bcc8beed195d9a41acb01d459aaa0c3cd5bae75290ef7be1fa6a0bfd6472e1c3f8df3a7f5d59767861ded0dc4a373a3ead447c'
        '5be3f5ebd0358e022c85081b45bc23b1e847542ae9035bece95c40fa5113a1fd9159ced013950d237206c2e6be94caa38b9d6414ea29ab65cd80043a2dfbfe5a')
b2sums_x86_64=('70f9aed8edf7859266a48bae4b7cb358eb1cbbc5497061dc89faab6b5053d78b2ccf7a98712ce9621f67d649b50c88efa36c0ebd6b73b093716a9744d8a8942f')

I don't know (for the moment) how I can contribute myself, but I hope these infos will allow you to udpate quickly :)

zrhoffman commented on 2021-11-08 09:55 (UTC)

@tpitkin Very cool, thanks for the tip!

@level101 Updated to 7214.2021.0915.1.

tpitkin commented on 2021-11-03 18:27 (UTC)

@zrhoffman, you might be able to get a more up-to-date version by using this mirror from F5: https://vpn.f5.com/public/download/linux_f5vpn.x86_64.rpm

zrhoffman commented on 2021-10-28 20:58 (UTC)

Work for me, but only after I run it with root (specifically kdesu)

@ttv20 If it works with root and does not work without, setuid is not working for some reason. If

stat -c%a /opt/f5/vpn/svpn

does not show 4755, the setuid bit is not set. Otherwise, maybe a security setting is keeping setuid from working, in this case.

ttv20 commented on 2021-10-28 19:45 (UTC)

Work for me, but only after I run it with root (specifically kdesu)

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