[112786] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anyone using any Linux SSL proxies?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Davidson)
Wed Mar 18 04:42:15 2009
From: Andy Davidson <andy@nosignal.org>
To: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <C5E29146.54C93%mksmith@adhost.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:41:54 +0000
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On 15 Mar 2009, at 18:04, Michael K. Smith wrote:
> We use Apache with mod_security and mod_proxy to do this, although the
> application is more as an application layer firewall than an SSL
> offloader.
> It works well for lower traffic applications; I haven't tested it
> under the
> loads that are advertised by the hardware vendors you mentioned.
hi
If you have multiple back end worker web services, then you should
investigate the mod_proxy_balancer module, as it gives you an extended
feature set that helps in this regard.
Best wishes
Andy Davidson
