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hrx_354229
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Feb 27, 2018

FIPS validated F5 load balancer to work with AWS ELBs

Hi, We recently found out that the AWS ELBs are not FIPS 140-2 validated. We plan on continuing to use ELBs for their AZ failover, ASG etc features but we now need to come up with a solution where th...
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JG
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Feb 28, 2018

This would seem easy to do: Define the ELB hostname as the fqdn pool member of your F5 virtual server fronting the user. See Configuring the BIG-IP System to Auto-Populate Pools.

 

There are currently a couple of bugs with this functionality, though. But you can always use an irule to get around them.