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Devlin_T_149357
Aug 21, 2016

Server-side SSL Failing

Hello everyone   We have a project where we need to provide TLS offload (client-side) and server-side encryption to the back-end web servers. I thought I'd test this out in my lab but seem to b...
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Kevin_Stewart
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Aug 21, 2016

By default the BIG-IP doesn't care about the server side trust. Only if you've configured the server authentication section in the server SSL profile, and told it to require a cert and how to validate that cert, does it care. In other words, if you left that section alone, it would generally ignore (not try to validate like the ignore validation switch in OpenSSL) the server certificate.