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    arpydays
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    Mar 02, 2016

    SSL Offloading terminates SSL at the F5 and the server side traffic is non-encrypted. SSL Bridging terminates SSL at the F5 and then re-encrypts traffic on the server side by initiating a new SSL connection between the F5 and the Server.

     

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    arpydays
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    Mar 02, 2016

    clientssl profile and no serverssl profile on the VS = SSL Offloading

     

    clientssl profile and serverssl profile on the VS = SSL Bridging