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ciscozest_30697
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Jun 24, 2018

LTM Source Address Persistence: Prefix Length Guideline

Hi all. I would like to understand the impact of using source address persistence on LTM module. By default is using /32 prefix length. I am thinking of changing this to /24 to reduce big ip persist...
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Simon_Blakely
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Jun 25, 2018

What you need to make that decision is a statistical analysis over time (some multiple of your source IP persistence period) of incoming client IP addresses to your application. Then you can determine if any single /24 is going to cause excessive connection pinning to a pool member.