Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP APM
Known Affected Versions:
11.5.1 HF1, 11.5.1 HF2, 11.5.1 HF3, 11.5.1 HF4, 11.6.2 HF1, 11.4.1, 11.6.0, 11.6.1, 11.6.2, 11.6.3, 11.6.3.1, 11.6.3.2, 11.6.3.3, 11.6.3.4, 11.6.4, 11.6.5, 11.6.5.1, 11.6.5.2, 11.6.5.3, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2, 12.1.2 HF1, 12.1.2 HF2
Fixed In:
12.0.0, 11.6.0 HF5, 11.5.1 HF5, 11.4.1 HF6
Opened: May 05, 2014 Severity: 3-Major
The system uses a Microsoft-specific captive portal detection URL (http://www.msftncsi.com/ncsi.txt).
With this bug we are trying trying to change it to F5 captive portal detection URL (http://www.f5.com/apps/all/avail.txt), and at the same time provide an ability for the customers to change behavior through modifying client settings in the registry.
Using APM.
None.
The system now uses an F5 Networks-specific captive portal probe URL in BIG-IP Edge Client for Windows instead of the default Microsoft-specific captive portal detection URL. An administrator for a Windows-based system can override use of the F5 captive portal URL by changing the following registry keys: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\F5 Networks\RemoteAccess.[ActiveWebProbeHost| ActiveWebProbePath | ActiveWebProbeContent].