Re: Client certificate auth behind f5 loadbalancer

[Marc Schöchlin <ms@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

thanks for your response.

I know that F5 loadbalancers can do this - unfortunately i use a shared loadbalancer without the possibility to do fast changes to the certificate revocation list.

Regards
Marc

 

Am 28.06.2014 19:54, schrieb Marco Pizzoli:

Hi Marc,

as F5 user maybe you are not yet aware that with F5, leveraging iRules, you can:

- implement client cert verification/validation, also specifically checking the CN of the certificate

- publish to the apache backend custom HTTP headers carrying informations extracted from the client certificate

Both cases are well documented on the F5 site. The first one in particular I can say by having implemented on my own.

Is it something useful to your case?

Regards

Marco

On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Marc Schöchlin <ms@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

On 06/26/2014 04:08 PM, Andre.Wendel@xxxxxx wrote:
> Why do you terminate the ssl on the F5 and not on the Apache-backend? We load balance IP/Port-based on the F5 and terminate the SSL on the Apache backend, so you would be able to turn on your SSLEngine and Proxy the SSL from the F5 on the SSL Standard SSL Port 443 of the Apache and you can do everything you want because you have all SSL information.

i use a wildcard certificate on my frontend ip to do irule-based (looking for the hostheader) backend pool selection.
Therefore it would be good to terminate ssl in the f5.

I will now use a new frontend ip on the loadbalancer and i then i will forward the traffic to the backend servers....

Regards
Marc

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