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Barry_Lalor_250
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Nov 23, 2016

Virtual Server Precedence Question

Hi everybody,   I am studying for my F5 201 exam and I am trying to get my head around the virtual server processing order of precedence. Using version 11.6.1 (the VE license).   I have a few ...
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nathe
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Nov 23, 2016

Barry, i think this askf5 solution will explain it: Overview of the 'tm.continuematching' db variable.

 

By default, if you disable a higher precedence VS then a lower one will not be used. You would need to change the above variable to True to change this behaviour.

 

Out of interest - i recently came across a version of TMOS with a bug that meant even set as False the lower precedence VS was being used. Hotfix resolved this.

 

Hope this helps,

 

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