Persistence - How does it work.

cookie and source persistence record both are created on the first request/response. subsequent requests with cookie will be sent to pool member which is encoded in the cookie value. if cookie is not presented in the request, it will be sent to pool member based on persistence record.

hope this helps.

cookie and source persistence record both are created on the first request/response. subsequent requests with cookie will be sent to pool member which is encoded in the cookie value. if cookie is not presented in the request, it will be sent to pool member based on persistence record.

hope this helps.

But how can we determine if cookie persistence is working for a particular VIP.

if you run tcpdump on bigip, you could see bigip sending request with same cookie value to same pool member.

Hi nitaas,

I can see cookies are being sent with same value to the same pool member. I have used F5 cookie decipher tool and httpfox to capture the cookies and I can see requests are going to same server every time.

Thanks, Sekhar