I did not test other options as this was kind of a break-fix scenario at the time and since F5 suggested class match -value, I didn't see the need to look at other options. That said, the performance impact of using findclass in 10.1 was quite significant. Under load, the vip would start timing out at just 2,000 connections per second. Under v9 with findclass or under v10 with class match, it could easily handle 350,000 connections.
I thought that class match -value returned the value portion of the
name/value pair, but I'll give class search a shot.
Thanks!