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james_lee_31100
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Oct 27, 2017

Akamai and OneConnect

Hello:

 

Does anyone use Akamai with F5 LTM OneConnect?

 

Based on Akamai link https://community.akamai.com/thread/4306-does-akamai-have-timeout-setting-that-amount-of-time-the-server-will-wait-for-certain-events-before-failing-a-request

 

Akamai prefer idle timeout 301 sec. I thought this is idle timeout on oneconnect? but someone else say it is tcp idle timeout.

 

Another say it is http keepalive timeout? since we use SNAP automap, that makes me think F5 ltm is a proxy, maybe someone could shed some light.

 

Thanks

 

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  • Simon_Blakely's avatar
    Simon_Blakely
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    Oct 30, 2017

    F5 LTM is a proxy, with separate client and server side connections and timeouts.

     

    You need to use OneConnect with an aggregated clientside connection like Akamai because it internally detaches the connection after each individual request. This allows each request in the connection to be correctly persisted based on client IP or load-balancing cookie.