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wowchens
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Jun 26, 2008

F5 LTM as Reverse Proxy

At one of my clients, I am tasked with setting up a 1500 series LTM as a reverse proxy for all of the company external facing websites. LTM is being looked for less of a load balancing function and mo...
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Yong_Yuen_Chong
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Aug 19, 2008
I used to work in a telco and my setup is something like hamish mentioned. I placed a pair of Apache Reverse Proxy servers in the DMZ who will then direct traffic to App tier servers (in the backend). I guess this is the best and cleanest.

 

 

Now that I am in another company, I seem to have similar requirement as dchenna, that is, using F5 as the reverse proxy server. I think it is feasible and am still figuring out how to do it since F5 needs to see the servers that are configured in the pool.

 

 

Anyone can help?