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hui_37443
Nov 30, 2012Nimbostratus
Dr. W,
Thanks for your insights.
We do apply cookie persistence, i.e. each client sticks to one particular pool member. We also have a SNAT pool of 3 IPs. We have a couple of pools attached to the VIP, and VIP has a bunch of http class profiles to do the dispatching. Most pools share the same server farm, but occupy different port numbers. It is like pool A consists of 10.10.1.100:22880 & 10.10.1.200:22880; while pool B consists of 10.10.1.100:1234 & 10.10.1.200:1234. We noticed when F5 connects to pool A, there is no port reuse visible in tcp trace. When it connects to pool B, a lot of port number reuse. Therefore I am quite puzzled by the different behaviour patterns.
Cheers,