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Doug_104173
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusLoad Balancing SSL LDAP requests
Has anyone load balanced client requests over ssl through a BigIP to a pool of redhat directory servers? I would like to make a master and slave pair highly available behind my BigIP loadbalancers bu...
Hamish
Cirrocumulus
CirrocumulusYou don't necessarily need a cert on the backend, unless you're going to re-encrypt the traffic between the F5 and the server. (You could just run plain text, but would need to translate any redirects from ldap:// to ldaps://
If you are going to re-encrypt, you could just use a self signed cert on the ldap server itself. The F5 won't care. And it'll save you the money.
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