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brian-memeo_235
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Nov 03, 2016

F5 will not do Load balancing "only" for SSL connections!

Windows IIS7 server, has UCC SAN Certificate, and has the proper bindings modified via cscript for "hostname." The local host name does not match the UCC SAN certificate, forcing me to use "cscript....
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brian-memeo_235
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Nov 03, 2016

Oh, hell. I know why that will never work. Load balancing won't have any idea as to which host the next reply packet belongs to, unless it authenticates the session and sets up the connection.

 

However, does anyone have a working F5 up front, with Windows IIS behind it? Please fill me in as to how you have it configured to support SSL certificates. (Other than reinstall with Unix and walk away.)