Handling Persistence for HTTPS connections in a two tier security model??

Thanks Arron.

 

 

Sorry to bother you, but I have one last queston which is still a little hazy in my head and that is how the client's browser receives the cookie given that cookie persistence is only applied on the internal LTM and not the external LTM.

 

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/ltm_implementation/sol_http_lb_cookie.html

 

"Cookie persistence directs session requests to the same server based on HTTP cookies that the BIG-IP system stores in the clients browser."

 

 

I've looked over your ascii art work many times and read the doco above but I still don't understand how the cookie gets stored on the Client's browser. Is the cookie just passed back along the chain from internal ltm -> external ltm -> client browser. Is this just how it works? How does the external LTM know that it needs to send a cookie to the client's browser when it doesn't have cookie persistence enabled?

 

 

Thank you.

 

 

Andy