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igorzhuk
Altostratus
AltostratusSSL Layer2 bridge in F5
Hi
Can I define in a certain way SSL bridge in layer2
I need f5 to be inline traffic and ingress traffic from client side come to f5 and f5 egress this traffic with low ciphers without change Layer...
Kevin_Stewart
Employee
EmployeeAnd if i want to create a layer2 transparent between routing devices how i can do that ?
Sure, and you have a few options.
- You can use Transparent Nexthop in v13.0: https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/ltm-implementations-13-1-0/41.html
- You can use virtual wire on an i5800 series platform and above (v14.0) https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/big-ip-tmos-routing-administration-14-0-0/02.html
- Or you can use a combination VLAN group and nexthop command in an iRule.
In the first and third options, F5 is still a full proxy, but the nexthop allows it to mirror L2 headers on both sides. But perhaps the most robust option would be to deploy SSL Orchestrator, which would configure and L2 solution for you.