Chris_Miller
Aug 16, 2010Altostratus
Why does "Forced Offline" finish off active connections
I've come to realize that most people in my environment believe forcing a node offline ends all connections. In our case, if we have a server with bad data, we don't want anyone with an established connection to that server to stay connected. The documentation below leads me to believe that the only difference between "disable" and "force offline" is that "disable" allows new connections for persistent users. In our case, we don't have any persistent users.
http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/7000/500/sol7566.html?sr=9444913
"Note: A disabled node continues to process persistent and active connections. It can accept new connections only if the connections belong to an existing persistence session."
"Note: A node that is forced offline allows existing connections to time out, but no new connections are allowed."