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f5n00bie_77440
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Nov 24, 2010

Link Controller - outbound load balancing

Hi,     I am new to F5s and implementing link controllers and trying to design a solution to meet the customers requirement of outbound link selection based on best performance, for a specific U...
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Chris_Miller
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Nov 24, 2010
You could certainly use tcp::rtt to look at the round trip time to the destination through 2 different pool members. The real question is, how often do you care about performance? If Link B is 5 ms faster than Link A, do you want to use Link B every single time even though the client would never notice?