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Chris_Phillips
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Aug 07, 2008

Per packet RR LB for next hop

Hi,     Does anyone know how to configure a forwarding vip to route all ip packets with per packet LB? Obviously it makes no sense within a normal vip / pool, but there's the nexthop comman...
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Hamish
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Aug 20, 2008
is this tcp traffic? You're better off balancing by stream rather than packet by packet for TCP... That way the packets arrive in order and the endpoint doesn't have to buffer & process out of order tcp packets which can be detrimental. This is the main reason CISCO routers/switches will (By default) put a stream over one link of an etherchannel rather than separating the load packet by packet.

 

 

It'll also be more economical on the F5 performance, since packet by packet won't use the ASIC (As you'll have na iRule on it).

 

 

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