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Margvin
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Apr 17, 2023

The Effect of Persistence on the Round Robin Method

HI F5 Warriors   I have a trouble from my costumer.Which in his server on the server he experiences very different traffic differences between their servers and in the F5 settings he has used the R...
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Michael_Saleem
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Apr 17, 2023

Is this an HTTP-based application? If so, and you are able to offload SSL to the VIP, try using cookie persistence instead of source IP persistence.

With source IP persistence, if clients are traversing a forward proxy or have their source IP PAT'd to a single IP address, this may cause very uneven load distribution between the back-end servers. Coookie persistence doesn't have this problem as it doesn't use the source IP of the client.