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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 20, 2012
SNI doesn't really have anything to do with certificate verification. It allows you to load multiple SSL sites onto a single IP address and port and is a modern alternative to SAN or wildcard certificates.