How is the best way to allow ports from a certain server talk both ways to devices inside

Hi Eric, I'm guessing you can try to create 2 virtual servers with the same IP, one listening on port 8989 (which will serve first request) and one listening on "any" port. I'll suggest to try disabling "port translation" flag in this second VS. Is persistence required? How many servers are you load balancing? Try this solution with a single server first, and if you need to load balance this I'd suggest trying to manage persistence via an iRule with some client hash method.