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NimbostratusAssistance needed to load balance / persistence across multiple hosts with multiple ports including SSL (weblogic)
Brocade appliances have options in place such as port sticky and port tracking however, f5 appliances do not have similar features but may be duplicated with an iRule. This is our problem:
We have a vs:80 and vs:443 using the same IP. We want to round robin all the nodes behind port 80 despite the different ports. When a connection is made, we want to persist the connection and make it sticky as to not break/reset the connection so if a client lands on node 10.1.1.1:7000 and enters part of the site that is SSL, the client needs to connect to 10.1.1.1:7001. Can someone help us with this issue?
vs_vip:80
* vs_80_pool:
10.1.1.1:7000
10.1.1.1:8000
10.1.1.1:9000
10.1.1.2:7000
10.1.1.2:8000
10.1.1.2:9000
vs_vip:443
* vs_443_pool:
10.1.1.1:7001
10.1.1.1:8001
10.1.1.1:9001
10.1.1.2:7001
10.1.1.2:8001
10.1.1.2:9001
4 Replies
- Kevin_Stewart
Employee
Do the port 80 and port 443 VIPs use the same FQDN? 
mgamez_60648Yes, same exact FQDN- mgamez_60648Any assistance would be appreciated
Hi Mgamez, F5 has been doing this type of persistence matching since the first DotCom web shopping cart was created on a webserver, over a decade ago.
The feature is called "Match Across", and you have several options depending on how you want additional connections persisted. You will find an overview here:
http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/5000/800/sol5837.html?sr=34009954
You shouldn't need an iRule.
-Chris.
