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M_2
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Oct 25, 2017

How much delay can F5 bigip SSL Vip has when compared with direct access of the SSL hosted server ?

Does any know the approximate value of, How much delay can F5 bigip SSL Vip has when compared with direct access of the SSL hosted server ?

 

case1 : https://vip.test.com (bigip Alias configured with server1) case2 : https://server1.test.com

 

-sam

 

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  • Kai_Wilke's avatar
    Kai_Wilke
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    Oct 25, 2017

    Hi Sam,

     

    I would strongly depend on the detailed configuration of your box.

     

    If you deploy lots of iRules to process and manipulate the requests/responses and also heavily make use of commands which are suspending the ongoing transaction to get information back from external sources (e.g triggering DNS/LDAP queries on every request), then it could add some noticable delay. On the other hand if you offload / cache certain responses on your box it may actually lower the delay and also help your internal server to process the remaining responses faster.

     

    And in any other case a single or two millisecond(s) added overhead would be already very much...

     

    Cheers, Kai