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Adam1g_232101
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Dec 13, 2016

Session Persistence with more IP addresses

Hi,   We have configured client persistence based on X-Forwarded-For header (to support WAF which forwards data to F5), and it works pretty well, but in persistence entries I see that some of them...
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Stanislas_Piro2
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Dec 13, 2016

Hi,

in case of universal persistence, 

192.168.xx.xx, 83.15.xx.xx, 128.xx.xx.xx
is a string, not IP address. so if this is the same string on next request, it will use the same pool member, else, it will load balance to new member.