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DB's avatar
DB
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Aug 30, 2010

Ideas on how to measure performance hit of SSL on a VIP?

Running LTM 9.3.1, users complain of response time problems for websites through it, as compared to hitting the website bypassing the F5. Lots of places to look, I know, but we use a tool called HTTP...
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JRahm
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Sep 13, 2010
You can use timers in curl to do this for you:

 

 

 

jrahm@ubuntu:~$ curl -kso /dev/null -w "tcp handshake: %{time_connect}, ssl handshake: %{time_appconnect}\n" https://mail.google.com

 

tcp handshake: 0.073, ssl handshake: 0.300