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Geoff_Fallin_28's avatar
Geoff_Fallin_28
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Sep 16, 2013

COOKIE persistance with geographically seperate LTM pairs

I have a GTM with geographically seperate LTM pairs. I am looking at how to read the origianly COOKIE persistance was set in the first pair when the user is passed to the second pair of LTMs. We are ...
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Kevin_Stewart's avatar
Kevin_Stewart
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Sep 16, 2013

Having identical VIP/pool/node names on both boxes means the BIGipServer cookie is going to look the same. I can maybe think of two options:

 

  1. Change the name of the persistence cookie on each device (inside the cookie persistence profile).

     

  2. Set a separate cookie via iRule that indicates the original site.

     

With both options, check the cookie on each HTTP request.