Revisiting Hash Load Balancing and Persistence on BIG-IP LTM

A good while back Deb wrote up hash load balancing. She made some really good points in her introduction that bear repeating:   Load balancing of cache and proxy servers has long been a standar...
Published Jan 21, 2011
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Jan 24, 2011
Hey Jason: nice one, thanks for writing this up. By chance did you account for collisions? I ask because at one point some years ago I did some iRuling with crc32 and had to bail on it because there were too many collisions.

 

 

That would be interesting data to see in any case...

 

 

-Matt