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NimbostratusRound Robin issues for proxy base clients
HI, i am new for F5 LTM and i a have created a VS and Pool with 4-Mambers, but i am getting Round Robin issues when user want to access this VS, actually i have a Proxy envirnment in my organigation so due to this all user coming through Proxy IP .. when i am checking connection table for pool so client IP address is showing proxy IP address and traffic is only hit member-1 not other members.
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- Kai_Wilke
MVP
Hi Vinay85,
your observed behavior is most likely caused by an Source-IP Session Persistence profile.
When using such a persistence profile, then only the very first request of a given Source IP Address would become load balanced according to your selected load balancing algorythm. Subsequent request comming from the same Source-IP (aka. different client behind the same proxy), would then just stick to the same pool member.
If you need persistence for your application to work, you could experiment with the Cookie-Persistent profiles. In this case each individual client would become load balanced, but then stick to its initial node on subsequent requests (using an HTTP cookie)
Cheers, Kai
Vinay85_248468Thasnks Kai..... so mean to say i need to remove Source-IP session Persistency after that it will be load-balance between Pool-members wuth round-Robin algorithm...???
- Kai_WilkeYou should give it a try to fix the uneven load distribution. But keep in mind, that disabling/changing persistency profiles may break your application. So better test those changes before going live... ;-)
