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Nik's avatar
Nik
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Oct 02, 2014

offloading ssl for metatrader 4 using bigip ltm

I'm trying to offload SSL for metatrader 4 (and soon metatrader 5) software using LTM however I haven't had any luck getting it working - does anyone have any experience getting this working? Right now I'm stuck using fastl4.

 

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  • shaggy's avatar
    shaggy
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    Oct 02, 2014
    can you post the configuration you used for the SSL offload configuration? How did it fail when it wasn't working (error messages, timeouts..)?
  • Nik's avatar
    Nik
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    Oct 02, 2014

    config is a generic 11.6 fastl4 vip, pool consists of one node with a tcp check.

     

    when i tested i tried two configurations

     

    1) standard vip + clientssl and serverssl profiles + http profile 2) standard vip + clientssl and serverssl profiles

     

    i have limited knowledge of the inner workings of the application, however i can say that when running curl against the address over layer4 will result in a timeout while running at layer7 (either configuration) will result in a connection refused. when using telnet, all three configurations result in a "connection closed by foreign host" after pressing enter once. i don't believe it's technically https so curl shouldn't work.