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Steven_J__Willi
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Apr 27, 2014

Node vs. Member

After going through F5 university and reading from docs, I am still struggling with the difference of Node vs. Member and when to use one or the other when determining the LB method. Does any one hav...
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Steven_J__Willi
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Apr 27, 2014

So I am going to say that real world cases are going to use "node" the most because we do care how many other connections are serving outside a particular protocol because this will have an affect on performance. Would this be a good assumption?

 

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    nathe
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    Apr 27, 2014
    Real world...yes, best to consider all load on pool members, but....I have seen both.