{"id":735,"date":"2013-02-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fir3netwp.gmsrrpobkbd.com\/2013\/02\/01\/f5-ltm-how-do-i-configure-my-f5-to-equally-distrubute-http-requests\/"},"modified":"2023-01-06T16:53:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T16:53:59","slug":"f5-ltm-how-do-i-configure-my-f5-to-equally-distrubute-http-requests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fir3net.com\/Loadbalancers\/F5-BIG-IP\/f5-ltm-how-do-i-configure-my-f5-to-equally-distrubute-http-requests.html","title":{"rendered":"Configure F5 to Equally Distribute HTTP Requests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_65 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6626519b051d4\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6626519b051d4\"  aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fir3net.com\/Loadbalancers\/F5-BIG-IP\/f5-ltm-how-do-i-configure-my-f5-to-equally-distrubute-http-requests.html\/#Question\" title=\"Question\">Question<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fir3net.com\/Loadbalancers\/F5-BIG-IP\/f5-ltm-how-do-i-configure-my-f5-to-equally-distrubute-http-requests.html\/#Answer\" title=\"Answer\">Answer<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fir3net.com\/Loadbalancers\/F5-BIG-IP\/f5-ltm-how-do-i-configure-my-f5-to-equally-distrubute-http-requests.html\/#Disable_CMP\" title=\"Disable CMP\">Disable CMP<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fir3net.com\/Loadbalancers\/F5-BIG-IP\/f5-ltm-how-do-i-configure-my-f5-to-equally-distrubute-http-requests.html\/#LB_detach\" title=\"LB::detach \n\">LB::detach \n<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fir3net.com\/Loadbalancers\/F5-BIG-IP\/f5-ltm-how-do-i-configure-my-f5-to-equally-distrubute-http-requests.html\/#Gotcha\" title=\"Gotcha\">Gotcha<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"h3\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Question\"><\/span><strong>Question<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>How do I configure my F5 to equally distribute HTTP requests so that each request goes to a different server ?<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"h3\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Answer\"><\/span><strong>Answer<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>To ensure that each request goes to a different server rather then all requests for a single connection going to the same server you will need to:<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Disable_CMP\"><\/span><strong>Disable CMP<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Clustered Multi-Processing (CMP) is a feature that spawns multiple instances of the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) across multiple cores. Though this can improve system performance this can affect the behaviour of how traffic is distributed.<\/p>\n<p>An example how traffic is distributed when CMP is enabled (with round robin) is shown below:<\/p>\n<p><em>Note<\/em> : This example is based on a platform with 2 cores.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 30px;\">Connection 1&#8211;&gt; TMM0 &#8211;&gt; 192.168.1.1:80<br \/>\nConnection 2&#8211;&gt; TMM1 &#8211;&gt; 192.168.1.1:80<br \/>\nConnection 3&#8211;&gt; TMM0 &#8211;&gt; 192.168.1.2:80<br \/>\nConnection 4&#8211;&gt; TMM1 &#8211;&gt; 192.168.1.2:80<\/p>\n<p>Here you can see that the first 2 connections are sent to 192.168.1.1, and then the following 2 sent to 192.168.1.2.<br \/>\nSo how is traffic distributed when CMP is disabled ?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 30px;\">Connection 1&#8211;&gt; 192.168.1.1:80<br \/>\nConnection 2&#8211;&gt; 192.168.1.2:80<br \/>\nConnection 3&#8211;&gt; 192.168.1.1:80<br \/>\nConnection 4&#8211;&gt; 192.168.1.2:80<\/p>\n<p>To disable CMP the following bigpipe commands are used,<\/p>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint&quot;\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">[root@f5ltm:Active] config #<\/span> bigpipe virtual VS-172.16.100.10-80 cmp disable<\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">[root@f5ltm:Active] config #<\/span> bigpipe save<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #999999;\">\/config\/bigip.conf was renamed to \/config\/bigip.conf.bak (482 lines).<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #999999;\">\/config\/bigip_local.conf was renamed to \/config\/bigip_local.conf.bak (1 lines).<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #999999;\">\/config\/bigip_sys.conf was renamed to \/config\/bigip_sys.conf.bak (29 lines).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">[root@f5ltm:Active] config #<\/span> bigpipe virtual VS-172.16.100.10-80 cmp show<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #999999;\">VIRTUAL VS-172.16.100.10-80 &#8211; CMP: disable<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"LB_detach\"><\/span><strong>LB::detach<br \/>\n<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>To ensure that each request is sent to a different server the LB::detach command is used.<br \/>\nThis command detaches the server-side connection from the client-side.<\/p>\n<p>Based on this create an iRule (using the syntax below) and assign it to your virtual server.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint&quot;\">when HTTP_REQUEST { \r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 LB::detach\r\n}<\/pre>\n<h2 class=\"h3\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Gotcha\"><\/span><strong>Gotcha<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>At the point that you make the changes above if you still still do not see the expected behaviour force the nodes offline, wait for 5-10 minutes and then re enable. 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