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Multiple Certs, One VIP: TLS Server Name Indication via iRules

An age old question that we’ve seen time and time again in the iRules forums here on DevCentral is “How can I use iRules to manage multiple SSL certs on one VIP"?”. The answer has always historically...
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What are the specifics of the VS to which you applied the rule? It sounds like you may have applied it to one that is using passthrough SSL or is speaking a protocol other than SSL/TLS over the established connection.

 

 

Looking at this, I suspect I should modify the rule to ignore negative text strings or be a little more thorough about the pattern matching to avoid this happening in the future. Thanks for letting me know.

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