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pmerlin_350975
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Feb 14, 2018

Killing TCP connection attached to secondary when primary server is back (in active/passive mode)

Hi I have 2 probes connecting to a console and I want to make the console HA using F5.   I've defined a Master and Backup console with a Virtual IP. Looking at other post, I've defined a VIP with ...
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Only1masterbla1
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Feb 14, 2018

In general, F5 never kills any session and intermediate devices should not. Existing sessions continues as long as server is available and new connections are based as per new reality. Killing all sessions for VIP is not a good idea. In your case, you have very short connection timeout period (default is 5 mins).