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thunderbird_920
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Jul 15, 2011

SSL persistence with F5

We are having the sharepoint portal. There are some users connected from 1 source ip remotely   If SSL persistence is enabled, all the connection will go to 1 reverse proxy server.   If ther...
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Jul 15, 2011
If you're decrypting the SSL on LTM you could use cookie insert persistence instead. This is generally a better method than SSL session ID persistence as it is not subject to the browser using a new session ID.

 

 

But I'm surprised to hear that all requests get persisted to the same pool member with SSL session ID persistence. Each browser, even if connecting from behind the same proxy, should negotiate an SSL handshake with a separate SSL session ID. Or are you using server SSL also? If so, see SOL3062 for the requirements for using SSL persistence:

 

 

sol3062: Using SSL (Session ID) persistence

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/3000/000/sol3062.html

 

 

Aaron