Fault Tolerant long-lived TCP connections

Actually I think I see what you're saying now. Since these are long-lived TCP connections, I can just simply let the load balancer pick a new target, since the load balancer is out of the loop at that point. So the RVD payload doesn't really matter. The LDAP example I was looking at doesn't apply because it's doing a new TCP connection, so it's able to change pools, etc. I'll work with the F5 guys and see what they say about possible TCP header logic being added to irules. Thanks very much.