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hooleylist
Feb 11, 2010Cirrostratus
Hi Andy,
Also, if the connections through the VIP are short lived, connection mirroring is generally not worth the additional resources it requires. Specifically, for HTTP, it doesn't make sense to use connection mirroring as the protocol can handled a brief drop at the TCP layer. So if there is a failover, HTTP clients should recover automatically or with a refresh of the page.
Connection mirroring makes more sense for long lived connections that don't handle TCP resets, like telnet. SOL7222 has details on this:
SOL7222: Overview of connection and persistence mirroring
https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/7000/200/sol7222.htmlbestpractice
Aaron