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Sriram_129909
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Jan 28, 2014

HSL UDP Load Balancing

I have an iRule that logs HSL to a pool - of two servers (A and B). The udp packets are appearing in only server A by default and 0% in server B. When I shut down server A (make it unavailable), then...
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Hamish
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Jan 28, 2014

Yes.

 

But not unless you're either running 11.4 (.1? sorry, not sure which one it came in) (Using log publishers) or you could run the syslog traffic via another bigip with a clone pool (I haven't tried, but I would be surprised if you could loop the HSL back via a VS on the same bigip to use a clone pool).

 

HSL itself simply doesn't run that way. It's written to be very fast, very low overhead send to the first available pool member. The second will only be used when the existing 'connection' would start queuing traffic.

 

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