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RKallas_77708
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Sep 29, 2014

Sticky Persistence with SSH?

I have a VIP for SFTP set on my LTM, and it is using a persistence profile. The profile is: Persistence type - Source Affinity Address Parent profile - souce_addr Timeout - 960 seconds Map Proxies - ...
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mimlo_61970
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Oct 03, 2014

It should not be necessary, unless you require multiple sessions to terminate on the same backend server. A single ssh/sftp session is a single TCP connection and would not be load balanced across pool members without persistence.