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Amanpreet_Singh
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Aug 18, 2016

dest_addr with Standard VS type

Hi Geeks,   I have seen a VS:80 setup on LTM with 'Standard' type,only "TCP Profile", "Pool", "SNAT pool" and "dest_addr" Destination address affinity.   I was in impression that dest_addr is...
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ekaleido's avatar
ekaleido
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Aug 19, 2016

Destination address will always be sent to the same pool member, if available. AKA, it isn't load balanced in your scenario.

 

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ekaleido
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Aug 22, 2016

Yes you can, but you won't be load balancing. Traffic will always go to one node, as long as the node is available.