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cvitale_103614
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Jul 16, 2014

Specify use specific custom persistence profile in iRule

We currently have this iRule association on LTM VIP service. It does a conditional check and if it meets criteria then it says to use (persist cookie) else it will use (persist source_addr). We would...
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cvitale_103614
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Jul 17, 2014

Thanks Steve - Wondering if you know how does the F5 know that the '3600' is specific to the timeout value in the persist statement - "persist source_addr 255.255.255.0 3600".

 

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Jul 17, 2014
I'm not 100% certain, but since the timeout is the only numeric value in whole number, integer format when specifying source_addr persistence that the LTM is designed to look for that type of value, and to use it for the timeout.