persistency on this irule

Hi Chris,

Unfortunately, I think this is expected. See these two related posts for more info:

http://devcentral.f5.com/Forums/tabid/1082223/asg/50/showtab/groupforums/aff/5/aft/1167826/afv/topic/Default.aspx1167901

http://devcentral.f5.com/Forums/tabid/1082223/asg/50/showtab/groupforums/aff/5/aft/1166691/afv/topic/Default.aspx

If you want to keep a client going to one node regardless of the rest of the conditions, I think you'd need to track this yourself. You could do this with cookies if it's HTTP traffic or using the client IP in the session table. Here's an untested example of the latter:

when CLIENT_ACCEPTED {

    Check if client IP is in session table
   set node_info [session lookup uie [IP::client_addr]] 
   if {$node_info ne ""}{

       Use the IP and port from the session table entry
      scan $node_info {%s %s} ip port 
      node $ip $port

   } else {
      if { [matchclass [IP::remote_addr] equals ::opt-client] and [active_members unison] > 1 } {

          Select the node and record the selection in the session table for 1 hour
         node 10.129.60.2 80
         session add uie [IP::client_addr] [list 10.129.60.2 80] 3600

      } elseif { [matchclass [IP::remote_addr] equals ::noopt-client] and [active_members unison] > 1 } {

          Select the node and record the selection in the session table for 1 hour
         node 10.129.60.66 80
         session add uie [IP::client_addr] [list 10.129.60.66 80] 3600

      } elseif { [active_members unison] < 1 } {
         virtual forwarding_TCP_vs
      }
   }
}

Aaron