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ddjs_21316
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Oct 11, 2007

Sticky Sessions and IIS6/ASP.NET 2.0

Hi all,

 

 

Apologies if this has been asked before.

 

Does BIGIP support sticky ASP.NET 2.0 in-process sessions?

 

 

1. Does it require IP affinity? (certain IPs goto certain IIS instances)

 

2. Does it handle sliding session expirations? (Session timeout is reset to predefined duration upon each new request, ie 20 minutes)

 

3. Does it work with variable session timeouts? If so, how? example:

 

 

 

4. Does it work well with ASP.NET Forms Authentication?

 

5. Are code changes to the ASP.NET apps required?

 

6. Are there any documents that describe how to setup load balancing in-proc sessions.

 

 

much thanks,

 

John
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  • hoolio's avatar
    hoolio
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    Oct 22, 2007
    I'm not up to snuff on what an "in-process session" is, but I know most of my customers use the vanilla cookie insert persistence or use an iRule to persist on the ASPSESSIONID cookie name so that a client will be sent to the same server so long as the client presents the cookie in its requests. Either method ensures that users coming from behind a proxy server will be persisted individually. Deb added a couple of nice examples to the codeshare for this (Click here).

     

     

    Aaron