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Lazar_92526
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Mar 21, 2013

SSL packet and the effects of using SSL Bridging

All,     I'm trying to understand what are the effects on a TCP packet when SSL bridging is performed on it utilizing an LTM. If the SSL is decrypted and then re-encrypted to a backend server...
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Kevin_Stewart
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Mar 21, 2013
I may be missing your intent, but generally speaking LTM is a full proxy at layer 4, so the TCP packet on the client side is not the same TCP packet that reaches the server on the other side. They are completely separate (and somewhat independent) connections. Equally, if you are decrypting and re-encrypting, the SSL session on the client side is separate from the SSL session on the server side.