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Sessions and Cookies and Persistence, oh my!

At some point (you hope!) it becomes necessary to implement load-balancing for your applications. So you went out and got one, either from a hardware vendor or maybe downloaded a solution, and put it...
Published Jun 04, 2008
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application delivery
availability
BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)
cookies
dev
devops
hardware
iRules
load balancing
management
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Apr 26, 2014
Thank you, good information. I have small doubt..

 

 

If we keep persistence value to 2sec (persistence method is cookie insert) and connection timeout as 30 min(consider timeout on real server is same as well). So here when we open any connection and we keep it open for 2 min and again try accessing the page so it will be on the same server as its not timed out?

 

 

Also in the same browser if we open new connection it will go to new page as persistence value is only 2 sec and we have opened new connection after that?

 

 

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