HASH Carp Persistence

Q1 Can you use this iRule along with Hash persistance for SSL passthrough VIP.

if you persist on layer 4 data such as client ip, it should be okay.

Q2 FRom what i understand CARP will have no time out value and will keep the session open as long as the client keeps the session open, Am i correct?

i understand persistence tells what server bigip has to send traffic to. then connection entry will be created in connection table. persistence does nothing on the entry in the connection table.