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Re: LVS farm and SSL certificates

To: Ted Pavlic <tpavlic@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: LVS farm and SSL certificates
Cc: Joseph Mack <mack.joseph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Andreas Schiffler <aschiffler@xxxxxxxx>, LVS Mailing List <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Joseph Mack <mack.joseph@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 12:11:25 -0400
Ted Pavlic wrote:
> 
 
> > Now if you have lots of https sites needing certificates, then
> > a thread on this list recently has described how to get around needing
> > large numbers of certificates. I don't understand how it works. Someone
> > has asked for example config files, but I haven't seen them yet.
> 
> I'm fairly sure that that particular thread was dealing with someone's
> incorrect belief that an administrator needed a certificate for each and
> every real server in order to conduct secure traffic. He was saying that LVS
> doesn't support SSL termination like F5's Big/IP does... HOWEVER, he was
> mistaken in that LVS does not require an administrator to purchase multiple
> certificates for EACH real server. That administrator simply needs to
> purchase one certificate per site which needs to be secured.

Thanks for straightening me out. I couldn't figure out what was going on
in that thread. (no wonder I'm still waiting for sample config files)

Joe

-- 
Joseph Mack PhD, Senior Systems Engineer, Lockheed Martin
contractor to the National Environmental Supercomputer Center, 
mailto:mack.joseph@xxxxxxx ph# 919-541-0007, RTP, NC, USA


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