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tiwang_122270
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Mar 03, 2014

Using SSL offload and passing traffic through to internal webserver

hi out there   I have defined a vs - solely LTM (bigip 11.3) where I make use of SSL offload in the F5 and passing the http traffic through to a internal webserver. The intention was that we in ph...
application delivery
basic authentication
LTM
ssl-offload
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PeteWhite
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Mar 03, 2014

Do you have persistence configured? It could be that for the initial request the client authenticates to server 1 but for the second request it is sent to server 2 and therefore authentication fails. Cookie persistence is the best to use as it does not require persistence tables.

 

Have you done a tcpdump on the server side? Might be worth using the -p switch to tcpdump, and ssldump.