Forum Discussion

Nimbostratus

Jan 24, 2020

About client profile (apm-forwarding-client-tcp)

How does a virtual server configured with Client Profile (apm-forwarding-client-tcp) behave? How does it differ from tcp client profile? I need to understand the working of apm-forwarding-client-tcp ...

application delivery

BIG-IP

LTM

Simon_Blakely
Jan 27, 2020
Here are the specific option differences in apm-forwarding-client-tcp to optimize the client-side TCP profile for APM network forwarding traffic:
early-retransmit disabled ecn disabled enhanced-loss-recovery disabled fast-open disabled init-cwnd 3 init-rwnd 3 keep-alive-interval 60 nagle enabled proxy-buffer-high 49152 proxy-options enabled rate-pace disabled slow-start disabled tail-loss-probe disabled
Most of theses changes are around congestion recovery and performance - the options are detailed in
K70025261: Overview of the TCP profile (12.x)

Simon_Blakely

Employee

Jan 27, 2020

Here are the specific option differences in apm-forwarding-client-tcp to optimize the client-side TCP profile for APM network forwarding traffic:

    early-retransmit disabled
    ecn disabled
    enhanced-loss-recovery disabled
    fast-open disabled
    init-cwnd 3
    init-rwnd 3
    keep-alive-interval 60
    nagle enabled
    proxy-buffer-high 49152
    proxy-options enabled
    rate-pace disabled
    slow-start disabled
    tail-loss-probe disabled

Most of theses changes are around congestion recovery and performance - the options are detailed in

K70025261: Overview of the TCP profile (12.x)