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draco_184361
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Feb 14, 2016

Ssl offloading

Can any one explain the ssl offloading elements of f5. So there is client side ssl profile and server side ssl profile. So the ssl client request will be terminated on f5 if client ssl profile is use...
application delivery
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Kevin_Stewart
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Feb 14, 2016

If you consider that client SSL allows the F5 to be the server side of the SSL session, from the client to the F5, the a server SSL profile allows the F5 to be the client side element of the SSL session between the F5 and the backend server. To apply a server SSL profile means that traffic will be encrypted between the F5 and the server. Your servers would then need to expect SSL and very likely need to be listening on port 443.