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Dazzla_20011
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Apr 01, 2011

Problem with website Pool using port 443

Hi,     We've set up this new UAT website to only use https so the pool members are load balancing using port 443. The health monitor I've created is also using https. Everything looks fine as t...
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Austin_Geraci_3
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Apr 01, 2011
Yes sir, you're going to need to re-encrypt that traffic.. ;)

 

 

Another thing you should consider, if your environment allows it, is totally offloading the SSL. One of the major benefits of terminating SSL on the LTM is you save the processing of decrypting/encrypting at the server.. no need for that overhead or special ssl cards..

 

 

In order to do that you would need HTTP at the server vs. HTTPS, go back to no server-side ssl profile, and a http monitor vs https..