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parasjonish_223
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Oct 22, 2010

SMTP traffic loadbalancing originating from one IP - possible packet loss?

Hello,     I have been browsing the forum for some time, but have not found an answer to my question. So decided to open a new topic hoping someone can advice/help.     We have not been ...
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JRahm
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Oct 25, 2010
As Colin stated, the LTM is flow-based, not packet-based, so all packets within a flow will be sent to the same server. If one of the mail server crashes, then the LTM will (eventually) reset the connection to the client. The client will try to send that message again, this time balancing to the other server.