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mreco_159588
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Jul 12, 2018

Persistence mode shows source address affinity although virtual server is set to use cookie persistence

Hi all, I have trouble understanding cookie persistence on our Big-IP LTM devices. I have setup a virtual server with a 'default persistence profile' set to 'cookie' and a 'fallback persistence pro...
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KevinA_246454
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Jul 12, 2018

HI Mreco

 

1stly I agree with Nathan, The fallback persistence will only be used when the client does not present a cookie to the virtual server, the ltm will then check if their is a persistence entry if you have the fallback persistence configured on the same virtual server The source_addr persistence has a timeout setting could not be you seeing persistence entry on the virtual waiting to timeout ?

 

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    mreco_159588
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    Jul 13, 2018

    No, like I said, even source address affinity is shown even when I only select cookie persistence and don't even set a fallback persistence profile.

     

    How do I see if the pesistence record is waiting for a timeout?

     

    And, the client DOES present the cookie, since I can see it being logged in the ltm log via the iRule.