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Nick_68106
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Feb 25, 2011

SSL client cert auth between two Apache servers

Greetings all,   I have been bouncing around the idea of having one of my Apache servers authenticate against the other Apache server using Client SSL Certs. However I can not find a way to make A...
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hoolio
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Feb 25, 2011
Hi Nick,

 

 

Can you give some background on why you want to do this?

 

 

You could have LTM send a client cert when it load balances a VS connection to a pool member (like the destination Apache server). You can do this using a custom server SSL profile. This wouldn't validate the Apache server acting as a client, but it would allow you to require a client cert on any connections to the destination Apache server.

 

 

Aaron