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JT010_161778
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Jun 24, 2014

HTTP Round Robin not working from browser

I have a very simple LAB setup with F5 LTM 11.3 Trial and two IIS web servers. All virtualized with VMWare Workstation 10. One virtual server (HTTP) with two nodes (HTTP) and round robin load balanci...
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Patrik_Jonsson
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Jun 24, 2014

Hi!

 

The load balancing is done per connection, not per request. Browsers uses keep-alives and reuses connections while telnet closes the connection after getting the response.

 

Hope that answers your question?

 

/Patrik