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sathish_126179
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Sep 27, 2013

SSL Handshake errors

We are facing intermittent issues in our Exchange connectivity thats loadbalanced in F5 boxes (LTM version is 11.3.0 HF6 ). On observing the LTM logs, I noticed many instances of SSL handshake failur...
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What_Lies_Bene1
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Sep 30, 2013

I don't believe so. However, it's clear you are using an SSL cipher string and negotiating a 'compat' cipher. For full SSL hardware acceleration you need to be using a native cipher. Making the move will no doubt also stop these errors being logged.

 

Making the transition shouldn't be too hard. See here for some more information: http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/13000/100/sol13171.html and also here: http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/13000/100/sol13163.html.