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From: Andrew Miehs <andrew@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 2 July 2008 10:32:34 AM
To: "chris brain" <chris.brain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Squid + F5 balancing doesnt work!!!
On 02/07/2008, at 4:18 AM, chris brain wrote:
We use F5 boxes. Amos is correct. Turn on destination persistance
for the
squid pool on the F5 unit. This will hold provided the traffic is
consistant
over the persistance timer (the timer might have to be set quite
large -
i.e. hours). Depending on the type of F5 unit you will have different
methods of persistance available.
chris
You will probably want to use source ip address based persistence - as
you are not using the squid in a reverse proxy mode.
Thought on the side:... can the F5s do the authentication?.... hmmm
Cheers
Andrew