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Jason_Hook_4092
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Dec 08, 2009

Does Applying an iRule cause an outage of the VIP?

Sorry if this was posted before, I wasn't having luck searching...     If I have a active Virtual Server handling many requests per second, if I use the web UI and add an iRule (when there ...
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Jason_Hook_4092
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Dec 08, 2009
Thanks Aaron,

 

 

I was understanding the same thing...with how basic the iRule, I wouldn't expect any issues either, I just wanted to hear from someone else that existing connections are preserved and not severed with the VIP cycling or some other "outage" like experience.

 

 

I have tested it with our development Big-IP (all our LBs are v10) and I didn't see any problems, just wanted to bounce it off others.

 

 

Thanks again!

 

 

Jason