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KD_48848
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Oct 24, 2007

Is it possible to Load balance XMPP, Jabber applications on F5 BigIP

Hey Gurus,       Has anyone worked on this before.     Need to load balance XMPP, jabber applications on F5 BigIP.     If yes what are the possible solutions for this.     T...
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Nilay_67310
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Mar 22, 2012
We tried load balancing and were not able to obtain session affinity - load balancing of course works fine - but am surprised that session affinity is not working - and the servers behind the F5 were clustered (using Openfire/Coherence) - but it always created a new session on failover.

 

 

Anyone run into something similar ? Any F5 gurus that can help ?