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Thomas_Schocka1
Nov 13, 2014Altocumulus
Hi Suhe Arie,
You can choose the action the F5 will undertake when "the backend server goes down". I believe you can set this through the 'Action On Service Down' setting on the pools.
In a standard loadbalancing virtual server scenario, there are a few usecases you need to take into account, then influence them to the best of the F5's possibilities:
- the backend server resets the connection => the F5 will reset the client's frontend connection as well
- the backend server cleanly terminates the connection => the F5 will cleanly terminate the client's frontend connection
- the backend server no longer response => the connection will timeout, and upon timeout, the F5 will reset the client's frontend connection
- the client cleanly closes the frontend connection => the F5 will cleanly close the backend connection
- the client resets the frontend connection => the F5 will reset the backend connection
Kind regards,
Thomas Schockaert