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Nov 13, 2014

LTM default behavior on long lived tcp connection when server went down

Hi all,   We are planning to use F5 LTM to enhance the availability of the overall solution. In our application, the client uses long-lived TCP connection to connect to the server and once the con...
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suhe_arie_17691
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Nov 13, 2014

Hi Thomas,

 

Thank you for your answer. This matches with my previous assumption on how the load balancer should behave. I have used other load balancer products in the past (mostly software based). I never tried F5 LTM before and have some difficulties setting up the LTM VE.

 

Do you know whether this information (LTM behavior upon connection failure) is available anywhere on the official F5 LTM product documentation? I will need this to give certain level of assurance to the stakeholders. I did some searches, but found nothing really relevant to this topic so far.