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Matt_Pitts_6390
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Aug 04, 2014

Is there a way to clear SSL session ID caches?

We regularly get asked to capture network traffic between an LTM and a pool member server and decrypt it for analysis. However, this can often take a long time in order to get a full SSL handshake to...
application delivery
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nitass
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Aug 05, 2014

Other than restarting pool members the only way I can think of forcing a full exchange would be to clear the SSL session ID cache on the LTM. I've not found a way to do this, is it possible?

 

i am not aware of method to clear ssl session id cache. anyway, can you change cache-size to 0 before troubleshooting?

 

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shaggy
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Aug 05, 2014
you could create a custom server_ssl profile that you implement during troubleshooting, reducing the scope of impact to just the target VS