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Nimbostratus

Jun 15, 2018

http2 from F5 to backend servers / pool nodes

We've configured some Virtual Server with a new http2 profile, and it accepts http2 requests correctly. But it seems that the requests that are forwarded to the configured pool members are not u...

application delivery

BIG-IP

AceDawg_204810
Jun 16, 2018
It appears the functionality you are trying to implement may not be supported yet. The excerpt below was pulled from the following support page:

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/ltm-implementations-12-1-0/14.html

Important: The BIG-IP system supports HTTP/2 for client-side connections only. This means that when a client that supports HTTP/2 connects to a virtual server that has an HTTP/2 profile assigned to it, the resulting server-side traffic (such as traffic sent to pool members) is sent over HTTP/1.1.