citizen_elah you are correct about coming from 4.X. That is exactly where my confusion lies. I am migrating 8 sets of 4x into a set of 6400's (production) and 4 sets of 4x to a set of 3400's (testlab).
citizen_elah thanks for the info. So as I understand, the implementation would be,
443 vip
clientssl profile (which I already have working)
pool for the servers on 7678.
No iRule is necessary in this case right? Your rule is implemented if I want to allow port 80 or 443 without having a redirect. In this case the business requirement is for all 443 to the F5 with no redirect then 7678 to the server on the backend. They may want a redirect in the future but not yet.
Thanks
Nimbostratus