Briefing F5 Knowledge

what happens to the connections?

Assuming there are open connections through an active system’s virtual servers and a fail-over occurs, by
default, what happens to the connections?

A.
All open connections are lost.

B.
All open connections are maintained.

C.
When persistence mirroring is enabled, open connections are maintained even if a fail-over occurs.

D.
Long-lived connections such as Telnet and FTP are maintained, but short-lived connections such as
HTTP are lost.

E.
All open connections are lost, but new connections are initiated by the newly active BIG-IP, resulting in
minimal client downtime.