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jdalyasc_295749
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Aug 31, 2018

F5 LTM source address persistence is 5 hours too long?

We have an web application that we are currently using source address persistence on the virtual server. The application is set to keep connections active for 5 hours. This seems long to me but this ...
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Kevin_Stewart
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Aug 31, 2018

The most important consideration here is really about storage. An IP-based persistence profile maintains load balancing "state" in a local session table. It's probably okay in your case, given the small amount of actual users though.

 

If you can support it, things HTTP cookie persistence are optimal. These are where the client maintains the state of the load balancing decision.