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Skuba_85554
Nimbostratus
Nimbostratussource address affinity
i've been using source address affinity for years believing that it would send clients back to the same pool member if their session was kept active within the specified time limit
however, i've just read this regarding the "Match Across Services" option which is disabled by default...
"Specifies that all persistent connections from a client IP address that go to the same virtual IP address also go to the same node."
am i missing something obvious here? if the option is disabled, how does source address affinity work?
thanks
hoolioCirrostratus
The critical word there is 'virtual ip address' not virtual server. Match across services allows LTM to ignore the port in a persistence record.
You don't have anything to worry about if you've been using source address persistence with a single VIP and pool.
Aaron
Skuba_85554thank you. i went on a 4.5 course years ago but obviously v9 looks quite different and some of the terminology is a little different. cheers