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F5FunTimes_2847
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Aug 19, 2016

Active Connections Never Bleed Off of Node

I have an F5 BIG-IP sitting in front of two T1 web servers that are configured to round robin traffic. Whenever I want to perform maintenance on one of the two web servers I go into the pool and dis...
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Vijay_E's avatar
Vijay_E
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Aug 19, 2016

The connections are probably not closing because of the incessant API calls. I would recommend the following:

 

  1. Forced Offline option.
  2. Use OneConnect with /32 netmask. This will force the F5 to make a load balancing decision per HTTP request instead of the default load balancing decision per TCP connection and hence, move the HTTP API call after the pool member is marked "Forced Offline".