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Alan_Sha
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Oct 31, 2005

How to keep the client connection when LB_FAILED?

Hi,     I need some help on the following scenario.     I have been maintaining a persistent TCP connection between a client application and Big IP. The client application is sending requ...
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Alan_Sha
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Nov 15, 2005
Well, it does work. I re-routed the failed transaction to another system and let the system discard it. After that, the sub-sequent requests were able to flow without any problem. That pretty much solved the problem.

 

 

Another thing I am trying right now is to re-route the traffic to another virtual server and let the iRule drop the data. However, that doesn't seem to work. I couldn't see the connection being established between the two virtual servers at all. Is it by design that we won't be able to forward traffic from one virtual server to another?