Thanks Eugene. Yes we are using a F5 BigIP and the network admins claim they have it working on the message level. My experience is the same as yours: we are getting message sequence number problems.
> -----Original Message----- > From: eugene rosenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 7:43 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Losing Message Sequence Number Sync > > > If you are talking about F5 BigIP, I used them in MQ > network. But you cannot use them for load balancing on > the message level since you will experience channel > sequence number problems. However, they can be used to > load balance on the connection level. Each channel > connection can be considered as TCP session and all > messages within the session should go to the same > queue manager. > > Eugene Rosenberg > > --- Bob Kasischke <[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Our site is using a "F5 Load Balancer" in our network. > > > > Using this box we are able to setup up identical, duplicate Queue Managers > > on two Unix servers. The F5 will load balance work between the > > queue managers. > > > > The problem is we lose message sequence number > > synchronization when the F5 switches between unix boxes for some versions of > > MQSeries but it is not a problem when using V5.3 on IBM > > mainframes. > > > > Does anybody know what I am talking about? If so > > then how does the mainframe maintain sync? > > > > > > > > Robert S. Kasischke > > 415-243-6975 > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > > Instructions for managing your mailing list subscription are > provided in > the Listserv General Users Guide available at http://www.lsoft.com > Archive: http://vm.akh-wien.ac.at/MQSeries.archive > Instructions for managing your mailing list subscription are provided in the Listserv General Users Guide available at http://www.lsoft.com Archive: http://vm.akh-wien.ac.at/MQSeries.archive
