Difference between connections, sessions and request
what is the difference between connections, sessions and request in the statistics of a node, these statistics are shown with the command
tmsh show ltm node
Bits In -
Bits Out
Packets In -
Packets Out
Current Connections -
Maximum Connections -
Total Connections -
Total Requests -
Current Sessions
for example in the following article it says that a session can comprise several TCP connections for example an HTTP or SSL session
https://devcentral.f5.com/s/question/0D51T00006i7Xzb/connections-vs-sessions
But it is not clear to me how F5 determines in a node which is a layer 7 session. If that session could go to another server since probably at the application level they handle session persistence