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KenJ_50171
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Dec 06, 2012

F5 LTM vs. Kerberos servers

I have been asked to explore what is involved in loadbalancing Kerberos servers. (My background: I've been handling F5 configuration for simple services for years, but I know little about Kerberos...
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Andrew_Husking
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Dec 09, 2012
What's going to be pointing at the kerberos VIP? If it's APM, i would strongly advise against it as we've come across design issues with the way APM and kerberos authentication work together and issues around timeouts/delays and APM marking the VIP down for 10 minutes and stopping all kerberos authentication.