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Infinity05_1794
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Aug 31, 2011

Will I lose/drop any connections on a failover?

I have a HA LTM pair with a internal floating IP and I need to reboot the active node. I've never done a fail over before (never needed to) so I wanted to ensure that when I switch my 2nd LTM to act...
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Ed_Hammond_2611
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Aug 31, 2011
Yes you will loose packets. The TCP connections on the ingress/front/top side will all be broken. Clients will need to reconnect to the new box. As mentioned, you can use connection mirroring, but that does not scale to heavy loads.

 

 

The Internet is unreliable by it's very nature, so clients should reconnect automatically. So it is seen as a momentary glitch that recovers very quickly.
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