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Doug_104173
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Jul 16, 2010

Simple Compression Question

Hopefully this is simple. If it apply the http compression profile on my LTM, will that compress traffic between the client and LTM AND compress traffic between the LTM and the nodes as well? Or is ...
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hooleylist
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Jul 19, 2010
Yeah, like you say, the only use case I can think of where compressing serverside requests would make sense is for load balancing across WANs or other slow networks. I haven't seen many servers that handle compressed request data either. Maybe that's why F5 hasn't made the option available.

 

 

Aaron