SSL Load Balancing

[evilphantom]

Not sure if this is the right forum for this But I can't seem to find a forum that would be appropriate to my situation. I am working on setting up a SSL site that will be load balanced accross 5 webservers. The 5 webservers [blade infrastructure] will be behind a load balancing switch and behind a firewall.

What I need to know is whether I need 5 different SSL certificates for each server?

I would imagine that I only require one certificate accross all servers [since they will be all identical except for the VLAN IP's and local IP's The load balancer will handle the sticky sessions to the server and The Public IP's will be forwarded to the correct server]

Thanks for your help

Dez

 

[sleipnir214]

When setting up SSL, you generate your own public and private keys -- your certificate authority only signs the public key you generate. So as a technical matter, you should be able to use the same key on all machines.

You could, however, be running afoul of your certificate authority's license of their signature. I recommend that you check with your preferred signing authority.

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