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Re: AW: SSL accelarators and LVS by Peter Baitz

To: Matthias Krauss <MKrauss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: AW: SSL accelarators and LVS by Peter Baitz
Cc: "'peterbaitz@xxxxxxxxx'" <peterbaitz@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: 'Joseph Mack' <mack.joseph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Joseph Mack <mack.joseph@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 11:46:28 -0500
Matthias Krauss wrote:

hope you don't mind, I'm cc:'ing the mailing list.
 
> I was working on this and got this successfully to run,

what was your setup? accelarator box in front of the LVS (as below)?

> at the end i was not able to use a apache server on the director
> directly

were you running localnode?, or were you hoping to decrypt the packets
on the director and then pass the decrypted
packets to the realserver via the LVS?

Julian,
        Should you be able to send packets for the VIP to an 
SSL accelarator card on the director, before the LVS gets them?


> because i had the prob that the director takes
> over the responsibiliy of the incomming ssl query and didnt passed
> it to the VIP and hanled this by himself, i asked for this ones in
> the mailing list but didnt got a answer and i didnt continue there
> but i'm sure that this is also possible with a litle RTNM,
> so i used a seperate host who is doing en and decryption and pass
> the decrypted http packets over to the VIP.

you are using an SSL accelerator box in front of the director?
 

> i was watching this with tcpdump and noticed that from the ssl rewrite
> engine over to the VIP was regular http traffic and also back, the
> client self didnt noticed that.

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