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Chandan_Viswesw's avatar
Chandan_Viswesw
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Jul 31, 2014

Concerns over F5 Load balancer's co-existence with IronPort ESAs

Planning to put a F5 load balancer in front of IronPort ESAs to spread the SMTP traffic from internet. We have couple of concerns.   Can the SSL acceleration feature in the F5 be turned off? A...
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mimlo_61970
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Aug 04, 2014

  1. Yes, just don't apply an ssl profile to the virtual server(client or server)

     

  2. Without ssl termination, which as stated above you want to disable, the f5 won't be aware of anything except the layer 4 tcp conncetions. It would not be able to make any determinations or take any actions based on message content. The only reason I can think of that it would disconnect/disable would be due to standard tcp/ip failures, or if a pool member fails(influenced by your 'action on service down' setting)