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girishb
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Nov 18, 2019

cookies vs source ip affinity persistance scenario

Hi Team   Good day..!   in which scenario, cookies persistance used..? in which scenario, source ip affinity persistance used..?   please explain me in details
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jaikumar_f5
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Nov 18, 2019

Cookie persistence is Web layer, Source IP affinity is Layer TCP layer.

If you want to have stickiness based on sessions, you go with cookie.

If you want to have stickiness based on client machine IP, you go with affinity.

 

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