Bill, Absolutely. The ACE can forward your application traffic at Layer 4. In fact if you you GPP (generic protocol parsing) you can create match conditions to make more granular deterministic forwarding based on L4 payload of the protocol..
Bill,You can accomplish what you are looking to do with a scripted probe. You basically need to set the socket then set parameters you want to parse "look" for in the form of a tcl script that the ACE will run against the defined rservers/serverfarm...
The behavior you describe is a function of how the web server is setting session cookies. The web application is instructing the client to setup a new *session* via HTTPS (new session = new session cookie). The client browser will then present the ...
Hello,You have the option to configure the sticky option for the backup serverfarm. Any existing client connections and new connections that have an existing sticky entry in the stick db to continue to connect to the backup serverfarm, however any c...
If you want to use sticky LB based on cookie, there are a couple of things to you can do, but ideally you would setup dynamic cookie learning and stick based on session cookie set on the webserver. The server cookie will be set and maintained for th...
