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Wolfgang_Blau_7
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Oct 11, 2006

Pool selection based on initial connection request

Hi there,   some mobile network operators use legacy clients installed on their customers PC’s. These clients initially check if they’re talking to the right server by connecting to IP address 1.1....
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Oct 11, 2006
There's a pool of legacy server and only request for the same session need to go to the same server. During the next session the client device will have a different IP address.

 

I agree as long as the idle time of the session isn't longer than the persistence timeout it'll work. I don't want to set the persistence timeout too high as this might introduce other problems.