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richaed
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9 months ago

Round-robin method not load balanced

I have configured BIG-IP 1600 to distribute the load to two servers in a round-robin fashion, but only one of them is communicating and the load is not distributed. We have confirmed that all Pool N...
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richaed's avatar
richaed
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9 months ago

I disabled server1, but could not communicate to server2, and I got a connection error on the source server sending to VIP.

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Injeyan_Kostas
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9 months ago

So you have bigger problem than load balancing. You said that monitor is up, what kind of monitor are you using? 

Can you try a curl also in server2 from F5? Does it work?

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    richaed
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    9 months ago

    It defines a monitor for the SMTP protocol, which periodically connects to the SMTP server and sends EHLO commands and other commands to check for responses.