BIG-IP connection mirroring in public cloud doesn't work, but why?

Summary BIG-IP connection mirroring is not supported in public cloud environments. Cloud Failover Extension (CFE) supports failover between BIG-IP devices, and persistence mirroring will work, bu...
Updated Jul 10, 2023
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Jul 24, 2023

Thanks a lot for the comments and link to the video shsingh . Like you said, it's nice to remember that ensuring your fastL4 servers have the ability to pass flows in flight with loose-initiation and loose-strict values is a good practice. I should have written that in the article. Also, like you said, SSH, RDP, and other protocols can have configurable keep-alives.

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