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Amar_A_361783's avatar
Amar_A_361783
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Aug 21, 2018

Why is Persistence required for long-live connection too?

I need to understand is even persistence required for application like SSH? SSH & say other stateful protocol which holds session with the client for long period, what is the use of applying persist...
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Andy_McGrath's avatar
Andy_McGrath
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Aug 22, 2018

None most of the time, if the connection is long live and you are happy for any re-connection to be load balanced again you do not need persistence.

 

However if you do want to ensure a re-connection by the client goes to the same pool member you would need some persistence configured to provide some level of protection.