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Luke_Lehman
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Aug 13, 2010

Cookie Insert Persistence Expiration / Timeout Setting

Forgive my ignorance with the topic, but I'm curious about the expiration / timeout settings for Cookie Insert Persistence.     In reading the F5 manuals the verbiage is as follows:     ...
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r_dynamo_79563
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Nov 16, 2012
An F5 build for an application I'm working on has two Servers listening on port 9000 which require a cookie based load balancing method, which tranfers end-user sessions seamlessly without forceful logouts in case the Server handling the load balancing requests goes down.

 

 

Currently, there is no SSL termination from the F5, and the SSL handshakes are handled by the Servers themselves. From my conversation at F5 support, they said that cookie insertion is not possible without SSL termination, and currently the F5 is just passing encrypted traffic to the Servers; since Inter-Server authentication is not portable among pool members, the objective cannot be fulfilled in the current scenario.

 

 

Can SSL termination be done from the F5, along with cookie insertion with Servers listening on port 9000 (other than 80) to fullfil above objective? My goal is to fulfill above objective with minimal intervention from ServerOps or Database team to get this build ready!