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Tom_Freeman_933
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Aug 20, 2009

Wildcard SSL certs and the 4.5.x OS

I have an older 2400 load balancer running 4.5.13-Build86b, and I will be migrating to Wildcard SSL certs hosted on the BigIP in the near future. In my current config, I'm handling SSL at the individ...
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Aug 24, 2009
Hi Tom,

 

 

If you don't get an answer here, you might try posting in the advanced config section. From what I remember, 4.5 would support a wildcard cert, but you might have to use openssl to generate the CSR and the GUI might not have allowed * in the cert subject. SOL3395 (Click here) seems to suggest that there shouldn't be any problem. Maybe I'm remembering something incorrectly or for an older version.

 

 

I thought the 2400 came with an SSL accelerator card as standard. Are you sure there isn't one? I'm not sure what kind of performance you could expect if you were to do all SSL handshakes in software. Maybe someone else can comment on this.

 

 

Aaron