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Shadow
Cirrus
CirrusSource_Addr Persistence Problems
When someone is connecting to a virtual server, it is directing to nodes outside of the assigned node pool. This began happening after I changed the persistence profile to source_addr. I did make cha...
Shadow This article has a nice short description of the checkboxes as well as the gotchas on them. I believe based on what you stated your issue was is that the match across pools was the problem checkbox. Without being able to troubleshoot it myself I cannot say with absolute certainty that the match across pools was the cause of the odd behavior.
Paulius
MVP
MVPShadow What was the reasoning behind enabling those 4 settings? Do you have an iRule that forces traffic to a particular node and port or is this all handled by the default load balancing of a virtual server to the associated pool and pool members? If you do not have a need to balance across pools then I would disable those settings.
ShadowCirrus
CirrusHonestly, there was no real good reason. I thought I knew what the settings were supposed to do and thought I was being proactive for some eventuality. That was my fault. I've since disabled those settings. However, end user confidence has eroded and I have to find out if those settings are truly what is responsible for the behavior we've observed.
I did not create an iRule. We are using a default lb profile.
- Paulius
Shadow This article has a nice short description of the checkboxes as well as the gotchas on them. I believe based on what you stated your issue was is that the match across pools was the problem checkbox. Without being able to troubleshoot it myself I cannot say with absolute certainty that the match across pools was the cause of the odd behavior.