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Helen_Wan
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May 23, 2015

Create a layer 7 profile for a proprietary protocol

Hello,   We have an application owner that wants to create a pool on the F5 LTM with a load balancing method of Fastest. This load balancing method was chosen after analyzing their connection and...
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Renato
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Nov 05, 2015

Well... I would not use one wrong protocol profile only to enable a specific load balance method. The fastest profile simply detects which node has less requests waiting for response, depending on the protocol the least connections will behave the same way.