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Frankx
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Jul 30, 2018

How to break a TCP connection after a priority group flips over

We have a tcp app that creates a connection to a pool member that won't break when a priority group gets deactivated. I have tried several different irules using LB_SELECT and CLIENT_ACCEPTED entry p...
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crodriguez
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Jul 30, 2018

The question begs, why would you want to terminate a perfectly good connection? Priority groups work this way by design - to allow existing connections to pool members that are no longer part of an "active" priority group to complete normally. New connections to those "deactivated" pool members are not allowed. Is there a specific reason why you want to terminate these connections before they complete normally? Or is this a problem that the connection never terminates normally?