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Will_'s avatar
Will_
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Mar 16, 2012

Persistence Records and Cookie Insert

Hi,   I do not see persistence records when configuring Cookie Method "HTTP Cookie Insert" (regardless of setting session or timer), and do see them with "Cookie Hash" and "Source Address " persis...
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hoolio
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Mar 16, 2012
Hi,

 

 

The advantage to using cookie insert persistence is that the cookie is the persistence record. LTM doesn't need to maintain a record in its memory as the client is responsible for providing the cookie which has an encoding of the pool member IP:port.

 

 

sol6917: Overview of BIG-IP persistence cookie encoding

 

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/6000/900/sol6917.html

 

 

Aaron