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Mia_254836
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May 03, 2016

About reusing the IP and ports deleted in the connection table

Hi Experts,   The BIG-IP will delete the connection by connection idle timeout or RST from the client or the server. Thus, after BIG-IP delete the relevant connection in the connection table. I wa...
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pete_71470
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May 03, 2016
F5 developers can answer precisely but I can tell you from personal experience that 3 in your example does not happen. The IP:port on source can't be reused until twice the maximum segment lifetime -- even then it appears F5 cycles through least recently used ephemerals per source IP first.