discard - what, exactly, does it do?

I believe it is very similar to an iptables DROP or ipfw reset (in fact, it may BE ipfw under the covers).

 

 

The session is TCP, so it will send a reset and the session just terminates. Basically, to the browser it will look like there is no connectivity at all.

 

 

It would be interesting to grab some traffic and confirm this.

 

 

Matt

A rule evaluating to a discard statement is identical in behavior to picking a pool with no valid nodes. By default, the request is silently discarded. But, if you set:

 

bigpipe virtual svc_down reset enable

 

the connection is reset.

Thanks, guys. gumby, I'm making note of the bigpipe command.

 

 

Cheers,

 

Steve