F5 SSL load balancing webservers on VPN connection issue

We have a situation where we want an F5 to load balance a bunch of IIS ASP.NET servers hosted in a remote data center.

 

 

I am able to create a "virtual server" on port 80 (HTTP) utilising the type Performance(HTTP) in the configuration to serve the content from the App_pool consisting of member nodes connected to the F5 thru a VPN

 

 

However, when I want to do SSL, for some reason it doesnt work. Please note SSL transactions happen on the F5 and the traffic is passed on to the same App_pool over port 80. All necessary certificates are configured on the F5 with a SSL Profile(Client). The web browser is able to make a connection to the F5 on port 443, but after a few seconds the connection gets closed. Below is an example using wget

 

 

For HTTPS:

 

wget https://www.virtualhost.com

 

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... Read error (Connection reset by peer) in headers.

 

Retrying.

 

 

(And this goes on in a loop. Same happens with a --no-check-certificate option in wget)

 

 

However for HTTP it works fine without any issues

 

 

For HTTP:

 

wget http://www.virtualhost.com

 

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found

 

Location: /foo/bar.aspx [following]

 

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

 

Length: 18654 (18K) [text/html]

 

 

Please let me know if there is something amiss in the configuration for SSL

 

 

Thanks in Anticipation.

 

 

Regards,

 

Anish Srivastava