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Wade_Miller_113
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Nov 12, 2007

Help with a difficult irule.

  This is not http, but rather a proprietary protocol. Here is the scenario.     The first packet of the request comes in with a string identifying the desired slot.     On connect,...
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JRahm
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Nov 13, 2007
It depends on the version. My understanding is that an outage on a server is supposed to trigger the bigip to perform cleanup on the session (and persistence) table for that server, but I have seen that NOT to be the case on a few 9.1.x & 9.2.x versions. I would definitely test this if you are going to rely on that behavior.