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daboochmeister's avatar
daboochmeister
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May 11, 2015

Why default pool "Reselect Tries" to 0? Any downside to higher values? Wouldn't that prevent client failures?

I'm trying to digest Sol10640 (https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/10000/600/sol10640.html) and all its implications.   The "Reselect Tries" seems to address a frequent customer compl...
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Max_Q_factor's avatar
Max_Q_factor
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May 12, 2015

My main concern would be for persistence, since re-selecting another pool member before the F5 has marked the original selected pool member down may cause more problems than it solves as re-selecting may break the persistence paradigm. There are many reasons to have a failed TCP connection that might not be indicative of a node truely being down.