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gmjoen_33163
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Mar 04, 2010

virusscanning using a proxy

We are using our LTM to loadbalance traffic for two app.servers. The traffic is soap/xml and works very good.     Now we would like to introduce a virusscanning solution. We are considerin...
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hoolio
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Mar 04, 2010
Hi Gaute,

 

 

I've heard vague references to F5 considering a tie-in with an antivirus company so you could potentially do virus scanning locally on LTM. You might check with your F5 account rep to see if there is anything more concrete about this now.

 

 

Else, you could try to send a full payload or HTTP parameter to a sideband AV server for validation, but you'd be limited to 4Mb--so I don't think there is a practical way to do this with LTM right now. See this post for details:

 

 

Virus scan attachments

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=53&forumid=31&tpage=1&view=topic&postid=3081430847

 

 

Aaron