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bruno_thomas_12
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Aug 02, 2005

persistence cookie at BIG IP level too persistent?

When a cookie is created at the bIG IP level it seems that the user is stuck on the same server for his session (which is a requirement of our solution) but should that server fail during the session,...
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unRuleY_95363
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Aug 04, 2005
If by "session" you mean the SSL session, then that is going to depend on the browser. In most cases, the browser isn't even going to know the old node is down as it's talking to the vip. So, it will continue to use the existing session. This is also true for session cookies.