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Martin_Smith_58's avatar
Martin_Smith_58
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Oct 19, 2012

Regular SSL/TLS for user connections to the LTM, with SNI support from LTM to the real webservers?

Hi there --   We have a client base that we truly can't force to support TLS SNI for HTTP traffic. However, we'd like to limit the number of IPs we put on our backend webservers. I'm wondering if ...
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Kevin_Stewart's avatar
Kevin_Stewart
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Oct 19, 2012
Try the Host header replacement method I described without setting the Server Name field. Still looking into why this works though.

 

 

Have you considered wildcard or SAN certs for the client SSL profile(s)?

 

 

Also curious why you're doing SNI on the back end.