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MW1
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Nov 05, 2010

F5 LTM deployment best practise (security)

All,   perhaps a little off topic but I was wondering if I could ask for general thoughts on the deployment of F5 LTM's in datacentre networks in particular to placement of the F5 and the backe...
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JRahm
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Nov 16, 2010
So you could load balance to a layer of web servers in the DMZ, then have the webservers initiate connections through the back-end firewall to an LTM within the LAN. Sending the connections as-is through the DMZ to internal network does carry risk as you pointed out. It really comes down to your security posture.