F5 vserver and ping handling
I'm a bit new to the F5 and its underlying networking stack. So, I want to better understand how the F5 handles ping responses to a vserver versus how it handles load balancing of traffic.
Typically, in monitoring, I will ping a server to see if there is any latency on the network or device. However, since this is a load balancer, I'm not certain if my assumptions still hold true about pings received from an F5. My assumption is as follows...
I see a ~100ms ping response from a vserver. Is my assumption true that traffic destined to that vserver will suffer from the same 100ms latency seen in the ping? Or, is it false in only the ping itself is suffering from this latency due to prioritized ICMP traffic? I know that some devices can prioritize the responses for ICMP traffic differently from TCP or UDP traffic. I just don't know enough about the internals of packet handling to know if the ping latency is representative of the slowness that would be experienced by TCP traffic sent through that same vserver.
If anyone has any experience in this area, please let me know.