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Casey_Lucas_167
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Mar 26, 2014
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How long should an old version of an iRule hang around?

I'm doing some iRule development/testing (11.3) and noticed that my log statements (via log local0. "msg..." ) were continuing to be executed even after I had changed or removed them (by updating ...
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safeinst_110941
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Mar 26, 2014

Ah, I apologize I had been assuming your traffic was HTTP traffic which is short lived. Changes like this are applied to all new connections. It sounds like as you discovered you can either stop the application or clear the current connection table to ensure the change applies to all connections.

 

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safeinst_110941
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Mar 26, 2014
Do not confuse persistent connections with active connections. An easy way to distinguish the two. View connection table: tmsh show sys connection View persistence table tmsh show ltm persistence persist-records Either can be deleted by doing a: tmsh delete sys connection or tmsh delete ltm persistence persist-records Please keep in mind that this will impact client traffic.