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Michael_Koyfma1
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May 12, 2005

Bi-directional traffic cloning possible?

Is it possible to clone traffic bi-directionally using iRules. Clone Pool functionality is only uni-directional – ingress traffic on VIP is being cloned to another pool. But there is a desire to clon...
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Michael_Koyfma1
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May 18, 2005
So, are you saying that if I setup serverside pool cloning and terminate SSL on the BigIP, we will clone not only ingress traffic on the VIP to the clone pool but the response from the main server pool nodes as well? What happens if both ServerSide and CLientSide SSL profiles are used(i.e. BigIP terminates SSL, examines traffic, and then reencrypts and sends to the server? Is it possible to clone the unencrypted traffic? Thanks a lot once again.