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AndrewM_4835
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Jun 11, 2008

Hash Load Balancing

Dear Forum,     I am looking at trying an iRule to persistently load balance a group of web servers.     I have found an article 'Hash Load Balancing and Persistence on BIG-IP LT...
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The_Bhattman
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Jun 14, 2008
If you refering to the one I posted, I have already tried this on a ~100,000 connections/sec and apparently it works just fine. What doesn't scale well is adding the multiple IP addresses. However, if you see that it's slowing you down then it's possible that it's plateform dependent performance OR settings dependent. Currently, I am using it on several 8400s and 6400 LTM.