does bigIP support sticky session

Question

Does BIG IP support sticky sessions?

I have 2 apache's behind a Big IP box at my partner end. Need to know whether Big IP supports sticky sessions.

My apache has the sticky session enabled. All requests will hit the backend hosted in jboss.

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 14 '12 at 13:08

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yes it is called session persistance

answered Mar 14 '12 at 13:08

Mike

Thanks a lot for the reference related to session persistence – Sekhar Mar 14 '12 at 13:17

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 14 '12 at 13:08

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Yes, it does. At least we use that feature.

answered Mar 14 '12 at 13:08

Janne Pikkarainen

score -2 · Answer 3 · answered May 31 '13 at 00:17

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Here are a few related links to AskF5:

Configuring HTTP Load Balancing with Source Address Affinity Persistence

support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/ltm-implementations-11-3-0/16.html

Aaron

answered May 31 '13 at 00:17

Aaron

Welcome to Server Fault! We really do prefer that answers contain content not pointers to content. Whilst this may theoretically answer the question, [it would be preferable](http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/8259) to include the essential parts of the answer here, and provide the link for reference. – EEAA May 31 '13 at 00:24

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