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Divert Unencrypted Traffic through an IPS with Local Traffic Manager

The Challenge A customer had a request of fellow St Louisan and F5er Brent Imhoff. They wanted the BIG-IP to decrypt traffic, send it through an in-line pass through  IPS, receive the traffic back...
Published Jul 12, 2012
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Aug 09, 2012
This was a great configuration to work with. It easily leaves the existing environment's addressing on the internal network the same while shunting traffic off to a layer 2 transparent device to be inspected. Creative use of route domains and vlangroups. Great write up!