is it a bad idea to put both ports 443 and 80 in the same class map, when load-balancing using the ACE.

[luckymike33]

We are configuring an ACE 4710, and it is pretty straightforward, in that it is balancing http, and https traffic to a number of servers, ssl termination is on the Load balancer itself.

The question is - is it a bad idea to match both port 80 and 443 in the same class map - especially when they will be configured with the same load-balancing policy. 

If so, why?

thanks for any help you can give us.

[Bilal Nawaz]

No I do not think it is, I have used both www and https on the same class-map the same VIP, lots of times - you could be providing different services on these ports anyway. It's probably good that you are doing the ssl offloading from servers, one scenario I can think of at the moment of it being bad is if you present http connections to a server that is vulnerable to attacks etc... from a less secure port.