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PrasannaBlore_2
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Apr 28, 2016

F5 recommended configuration for Microsoft IIS

Hi,   This question can be sound very trivial and basic but I have very high level knowledge on F5 and I am a developer with no prior knowledge and background on network administration. Any help i...
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Apr 28, 2016

Thanks for replying Hannes.

 

To answer your question:

 

  1. The backend pool member i.e. the IIS server is listening on port 80 for processing incoming requests. I have configured the same in Load balancing pool. I am trying for SSL offload i.e. SSL terminates on F5 and requests are sent over the wire as normal http

     

  2. Is server SSL applicable as I am not sending any data over SSL. Its just plain HTTP calls from F5 to pool and vice versa.

     

I hope this sheds more light on present problem that I am facing

 

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Apr 29, 2016
Thanks for the config. I don't see any problems. Perhaps someone else will notice something that I'm missing here. Hope you'll get this sorted out