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Iain_Fyfe_38111
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May 17, 2011

SSL Acceleration - Can I encrypt outbound traffic

I know that BIG-IP can do SSL termination and optionally re-encrypt traffic, but I'm not clear from reading the documentation whether it is possible to encrypt a non-encrypted traffic stream. We have...
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May 17, 2011
Hi Iain,

 

 

Yes, LTM can encrypt the serverside connection regardless of whether the clientside connection is encrypted. You can configure this with a server SSL profile on the virtual server. You'd probably need to enable SNAT on the virtual server to ensure the external host responds back to the client via LTM. You'll also need a route from LTM to the external host.

 

 

Aaron