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Akhil_Dev_26054's avatar
Akhil_Dev_26054
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Apr 12, 2018

Source Persistence for Proxy servers

Hi All,   The current setup :-   Users ==> F5 ( in HA ) ==> 9 Bluecoat Proxies   The client wants source address persistence to be configured on F5. Can someone help with the configuration s...
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RaghavendraSY_7
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Apr 12, 2018

it works same as source-based persistence but in this case, it will be using destination IP instead of source IP. With destination persistence, you will increase the speed of contents because of cache.

 

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youssef1
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Apr 12, 2018

Thank fof your feed back, but i am not sure that destination IP was the good choice in this case. If you have 6 nodes/blucoat, you will Forward (because of destination peristence) on the same bluecoat for all user request.

 

In general we use destination address persistence in case of Wildcard VS (When you user F5 as default GW).

 

But I think in this case source persistence is the best alternative...