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tmull60_92900
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May 20, 2011

F5 LTM / Riverbed / Exchange 2010 Disconnect and Reconnect

Is anyone having an issue when using F5 LTM to load balance Exchange 2010 connections over a WAN when Riverbed is used to accelerate network traffic?     All of our remote users get disconnecte...
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Michael_Koyfma1
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Jul 27, 2011
@JTrimble - do you also use Riverbed in your environment?

 

 

F5 has two core modes of operation - full proxy(also known as Standard), which operates on sessions, and Fastl4, which is a traditional packet-based load-balancing mechanism that doesn't terminate actual TCP connections on F5 but rather performs delayed binding before making load-balancing decision. A full detailed description of each virtual server type with illustrations and their differences can be found in this F5 Solution article:

 

 

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/8000/000/sol8082.html?sr=15727922l4