Persist connection or session on F5 (where client /server both do not have cookies or session management

Hi Sosa. It is difficult to tell if BIG-IP can persist connections for your application or not.

The BIG-IP does have a Universal Persistence option, which is a persist table entry based on user defined values in the payload data. Here is an overview of the Universal Persistence:

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/7000/300/sol7392.html?sr=37123366

The best way to use this, is to find a unique value in the client side or server side data stream for EACH tcp connection as it is created on the BIG-IP. I see from your request/response examples, that it appears there might be some unique client/server pairs of data in the "SSI" values. However, without a complete packet trace, it is impossible to tell from your posting.

You also have to be mindful, that persist will only help you on BIG-IP if your application can run multiple transactions down the same TCP connection to the same server ( which is the whole point of persistence ). If the tcp connection is torn down after each transaction, you don't even need persistence because it won't be used after the first transaction.

If you can provide additional client>big-ip>server traffic details, both at the tcp and application levels, then perhaps we can look at the payloads and see if we can find a unique value to persist on.

Thanx,

Chris.