From: Fernando Cardoso (fcardoso@trusted.pt)
Date: Wed Aug 27 2003 - 11:03:05 EDT
Actually it can be a single BigIP box with a accelerator card or a couple of
boxes, one doing load-balancing and the other taking care of SSL.
If there are two boxes in the network, the accelerator will handle the SSL
session and, as you mention, will forward the unencrypted traffic to the
second box where the load-balancing will take place.
Fernando
>
> If they are using the SSL-Accelerator (which is a seperate box than
> their load-balancer AFAIK) then yes, any 443 probes you launch will be
> hitting the F5 box, not the webservers. Your diagram is correct -- The
> SSL-Accelerator will be handling the actual encrypted sessions and
> forwarding them into the intranet unencrypted to their http servers.
> The F5 box does all the SSL-side traffic.
>
> Marc W.
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