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ccraddock
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Sep 19, 2019

Can editing an iRule reset existing connections

Dear Dev Central,   I recently had a situation where when I edited an active iRule applied to a VS, after hitting "update" a user in the web portal (connected to the VS) stated that they were boo...
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Youssef,

 

Thanks for the response. All I know is that around the time of editing the iRule, the user stated that they were logged into the portal conducting work and then suddenly got booted back to the login screen (losing all their work). I had assumed at the time that editing the iRule was the cause, but I wasn't 100% sure of that was the cause.

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jaikumar_f5
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Sep 23, 2019

Can you also tell what logical change you modified in your irule.

 

Making any object level or configuration level change impacts or gets applied to the new connections only. The older connections does not take these new changes unless they timeout and establish a new connection. In other words, existing connections behave to the old irule and the new connections behave to the new irule.

 

Refer this article to know the behavior of changes.