Package Details: f5fpc 7262.0.0.2-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/f5fpc.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: f5fpc
Description: Command-line VPN client using FastPPP to connect to F5Networks BIG-IP APM 13.0
Upstream URL: https://techdocs.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_apm/manuals/product/apm-client-configuration-11-4-0/4.html
Licenses: Commercial
Provides: f5fpc, svpn
Submitter: zrhoffman
Maintainer: zrhoffman
Last Packager: zrhoffman
Votes: 4
Popularity: 0.003209
First Submitted: 2020-05-03 22:55 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-12-15 04:34 (UTC)

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zrhoffman commented on 2025-12-15 05:11 (UTC)

@nosky:

From my understanding f5fpc tries to update /etc/resolved.conf and it don't work with systemd-resolved way of doing things.

I made /etc/resolv.conf read-only with chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf so svpn doesn't update it. But I also run my own DNS server and don't use systemd-resolved.

Also, are you getting this type of errors in journalctl -f while active VPN connection?

Yes. There is some discussion about it on F5's technical forum here: https://community.f5.com/discussions/technicalforum/f5fpc-unable-to-connect-on-ubuntu-25-04/342867

But the VPN works fine for me, so that seems like an annoyance at worst.

nosky commented on 2025-07-03 08:39 (UTC) (edited on 2025-07-03 08:39 (UTC) by nosky)

@zrhoffman Hi, How did you manage conflict with systemd-resolved? From my understanding f5fpc tries to update /etc/resolved.conf and it don't work with systemd-resolved way of doing things. Currently I'm just using script that after connection sets proper DNS config for VPN interface.

Also, are you getting this type of errors in journalctl -f while active VPN connection?

netlink: 'svpn_x86_64': attribute type 6 has an invalid length.

I'm wondering if you encountered similiar issues, if so how did you managed to solve them. Thank you! :)

zrhoffman commented on 2022-10-23 17:34 (UTC)

@andutra Updated to a different 7230.2022.0711.1 mirror, hashes should pass now

zrhoffman commented on 2022-10-21 18:20 (UTC)

Looks like vpn.f5.com downgraded to 7221.2022.0411.1. I'll look for another 7230.2022.0711.1 mirror

andutra commented on 2022-10-21 18:04 (UTC)

Hi, I'm getting this error when I try to install:

==> Validating source_x86_64 files with sha512sums... linux_f5cli-7230.2022.0711.1-1.x86_64.deb ... FAILED ==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check!

zrhoffman commented on 2022-04-29 09:46 (UTC)

Wow! In my case, I need 2FA, but OpenConnect supports that:

echo MRHSession=0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef | sudo openconnect --protocol=f5 --cookie-on-stdin SERVERNAME

Cool that OpenConnect supports this, thanks for sharing.

PeterRies commented on 2022-04-28 18:38 (UTC)

FYI - I switched to openconnect and got it running with the help of a colleague.

Commandline if of any interest for other people (trick in my case was passing the useragent)

sudo openconnect --useragent='Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4389.72 Safari/537.36' --user=USERNAME --protocol=f5 SERVERNAME

PeterRies commented on 2022-04-27 11:51 (UTC)

Great hint. I'll give that a try. I only found two very old python scripts that didn't work anymore. But these are quite up to date. Would be great if they'd work.

zrhoffman commented on 2022-04-26 21:52 (UTC)

If your next alternative is Windows, maybe try https://github.com/kayrus/gof5 or https://github.com/zrhoffman/svpn-login (both cli-only) first?

PeterRies commented on 2022-04-26 19:29 (UTC)

I was too fast. Older version gives me a session established (that's why I was exited too early) but f5fpc -i tells me that status is disconnected. This doesn't change over time.

o no luck. I'll wait until the 0411.1 is available. Will reactivate my Windows Laptop for a while :/

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