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Zen_Y
Cirrus
Oct 28, 2024What will be happen to live and existing connections when failover HA BIG IP active-standby
Good morning I have a little question, when we create HA configuration with active-standby mode, with Mac Masquerade configuration. What will be happen to live and existing connections? They will be...
Zen_Y
Cirrus
Oct 29, 2024Hi akonu
This is interesting, I have read several articles about mirroring connections, but in the implementation in reality, I have not implemented this. Is there any information about the impact of this implementation? such as increasing cpu, memory, network load or even certain bugs that must be avoided on both active and standby devices?
And when we do not implement a mirroring connection, will the existing connection time out before it finds a new active device?
Paulius
MVP
Oct 30, 2024This is dependent on how the application handles a no response. I would say from a TCP perspective, the connection would time out, it would inform the user of the connection loss and you would have to refresh the connection or resend the request.