topic Re: CSM persistent function in Application Networking https://community.cisco.com/t5/application-networking/csm-persistent-function/m-p/229347#M3214 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>persistent is only for http1.1 traffic where inside a single TCP connection a client can send multiple GET.</P><P>If you need to loadbalance each GET separately, you need the command 'persistent rebalance'.</P><P>Otherwise, the first GET will determin the server and all subsequent GET in this same TCP connection will go to the same server.</P><P></P><P>Stickyness is for multiple TCP connections.</P><P>If you want to guarantee that each new tcp connection goes to the same server, you need some sort of stickyness - like sticky source ip.</P><P></P><P>If you configure stickyness it usually means you want all connections/GET to go to the same server, so you would not configure 'persistent rebalance' and sticky at the same time.</P><P></P><P>Regards,</P><P></P><P>Gilles.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 09 Jun 2004 07:01:32 GMT Gilles Dufour 2004-06-09T07:01:32Z CSM persistent function https://community.cisco.com/t5/application-networking/csm-persistent-function/m-p/229346#M3213 <P>I'm confused with "persistent" and sticky.Can I only use enable persistent feature to stick client's connection to a particular server?</P> Wed, 09 Jun 2004 00:15:40 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/application-networking/csm-persistent-function/m-p/229346#M3213 yueric 2004-06-09T00:15:40Z Re: CSM persistent function https://community.cisco.com/t5/application-networking/csm-persistent-function/m-p/229347#M3214 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>persistent is only for http1.1 traffic where inside a single TCP connection a client can send multiple GET.</P><P>If you need to loadbalance each GET separately, you need the command 'persistent rebalance'.</P><P>Otherwise, the first GET will determin the server and all subsequent GET in this same TCP connection will go to the same server.</P><P></P><P>Stickyness is for multiple TCP connections.</P><P>If you want to guarantee that each new tcp connection goes to the same server, you need some sort of stickyness - like sticky source ip.</P><P></P><P>If you configure stickyness it usually means you want all connections/GET to go to the same server, so you would not configure 'persistent rebalance' and sticky at the same time.</P><P></P><P>Regards,</P><P></P><P>Gilles.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 09 Jun 2004 07:01:32 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/application-networking/csm-persistent-function/m-p/229347#M3214 Gilles Dufour 2004-06-09T07:01:32Z