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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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Jul 10, 2018

When you say 'The IPS itself is strictly an L2 pass through device' does that mean it's not inline/dropping traffic? Just starting to look into setting something like this up to eliminate the F5 sandwich.