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eroach5
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Sep 23, 2014

Seeing traffic when vip/ node are down, and have tcpdump's that validate that traffic is still passing.

Hello,   I have a very odd situation. I have a node configured to only respond on TCP port 8081 to incoming http traffic, with a very simple health monitor Get /health_check.txt \r\n. That seems ...
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What_Lies_Bene1
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Sep 23, 2014

This all relates to the Action on Service Down setting for the Pool. With the default setting existing connections will continue to use a Pool Member even if marked down as long the member continues to service those existing connections.

 

If you select one of the other options then you won't see this behaviour (they are all fairly obvious).