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Thanks for your reply. I had read the document, which says the hash is computed from each character of the MemberName, and although there is no definition of MemberName in the document, it does define the Name entry in the Member table as the FQDN, rather than the IP and port, and would produce an identical hash for two entries with the same FQDN and differing ports. However, the F5 implementation only has the pool to use as the member table, which means they will use the IP address, but not necessarily the port.
That said, I did a test after my post yesterday, and it does seem to include the port in the hash.
Of course, the primary reason for doing this was to try and put some bias towards some of the proxies. It would be nice if the ratio field in the pool member table could be incorporated into the hash calculation.