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Mitch_Maxwell_M
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusSyslog and TCP
Working on an environment where a VIP was set up for asyslog environment. Syslog collection was receiving a very high volume of logs (over 200k per second).
The original setup was a stateless ...
ralphwNimbostratus
NimbostratusI'm looking for a solution to this as well. We need to be able to use the F5 as a load balancer for TCP Syslog, as some sources are very chatty, and overwhelm the connection that persists to a single server.
We would prefer that traffic be load balanced across the pool members, round-robin style, for each syslog packet.
1) Can the F5 determine when a syslog packet ends?
2) If #1 is true, then we need to be able to send 33% of the Syslog packets to each of the three pool members?
We can do iRules, but we need to be able to handle 300,000 EPS, during our busy hours.
