SSL Offloading in 5.1.1

[julianb79]

In moving from View 5.0 to 5.1.1 I noticed this in the Admin guide, "If your view clients use smart card authentication, the client must make HTTPS connections directly to the View Connection Server or security server.  SSL off-loading is not supported with smart card authentication"

Currently in our View 5.0 environment the F5 is offloading SSL and we use smart cards without any issues.  I can't find any additional information on why 5.1.1 is different or if there is a workaround where we can offload SSL and use smart card authentication.

Anbody have any experience or additional insight?

Thanks

[mpryor]

Behaviour here hasn't changed between 5.0 and 5.1. This is for initial authentication to the connection server using smart cards. It relies on the SSL negotiation to verify client (user) identity on the server. I'm guessing you're either just using smartcards within the desktops or using "login as current user" in the client (which actually uses kerberos to the connection server).