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i-tech_182772's avatar
i-tech_182772
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Oct 05, 2018

Persistence match across service

Hi Guys,   I am new and i need help on understanding how match-across-service works. Been reading the K5837, but is still kinda confused.   For matching across-service to work ? Does both VS...
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Kevin_Stewart's avatar
Kevin_Stewart
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Oct 05, 2018

  1. In a match-across-services scenario, you'd typically have two VIPs with the same IP listening on different services (ex. HTTP/HTTPS), and yes, both of these VIPs would need to have the same persistence settings.

     

  2. An origin persistence record will maintain full details of the connection (pool, node, port). When a user arrives at another service VIP and has not origin persistence with that VIP, but does have match-across-service persistence information, it will only use the node IP to find the match.