Understanding Firewall and SSL Accelerator

["Sundeep Sharma" <ssharma3 () sapient com>]

Hi,
I am new to this list and I am trying to understand a typical scenario
In this scenario, F5 BigIP is used along with the hardware firewall to
 offload SSL traffic from webservers. Now, my confusion is,
 
> 1. Who identifies if the incoming traffic is HTTP or HTTPS ? Hardware
> firewall or the BigIP ?
> 2. Firewall forwards the HTTPS request to BigIP ? How does it know which
> IP it needs to forward as the same IP will be used for both HTTP and
> HTTPS .. ?
> 3. How does BigIP forwards the request to firewall ?
> 4. How does webserver sends back the response tp BigIP for encryption ?
> 5. How does BigIP knows which client to return back the request ?


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