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DP's avatar
DP
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Feb 17, 2016

Node selection for non-HTTP traffic

I've setup a standard VS with no HTTP profile applied, only TCP. The protocol I'd like to load balance is custom and TCP-based. There's 1 iRule applied which I've based on this: https://devcentral....
application delivery
iRules
LTM
VernonWells's avatar
VernonWells
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Feb 17, 2016

Ordinarily, the server-side connection is initiated at the completion of the client-side three-way handshake, so the order of events should be:

  1. CLIENT_ACCEPTED
  2. LB_SELECTED
  3. SERVER_CONNECTED
  4. CLIENT_DATA

Since you execute the 

node
command in CLIENT_DATA, this may raise LB_SELECTED again, but it would have no effect, since the server-side is already connected. Try performing an LB::detach before the 
node
command.