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fanttazio_23961
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Jul 20, 2016

SSL offloading issue with MSSQL

Hello all, We have a setup where f5 does the SSL offloading for our MSSQL server but looks like when we enable this feature the client cannot establish the connection to the server. When we disable...
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quixel_254852's avatar
quixel_254852
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Aug 02, 2016

I've just managed to solve a very similar problem by ticking the "Non-SSL Connections" Enable checkbox in my client ssl profile settings. I also was using 2014 version of the SQL client, which didn't have the Trust Server Certificate checkbox in its GUI by default, so I had to put TrustServerCertificate=True; string parameter in the Additional Connection Parameters tab on the client, encrypt connection setting was checked on the client of course.

 

  • boneyard's avatar
    boneyard
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    Aug 05, 2016

    interesting, that would suggest the big-ip doesn't see this as SSL traffic at all.