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prashanth
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Dec 13, 2020
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BIG IP VE FastL4

Hi There, Recently I saw a F5 LTM setup with fast L4 type virtual servers. I understand that the FastL4 profile uses ePVA ASIC for the Fast L4 profile. The current setup was newly build on F5 VE e...
  • Dario_Garrido's avatar
    Dario_Garrido
    Dec 13, 2020

    Hello Prashanth.

     

    FastL4 is a specific profile which goal is to enhance performance in L4 connections and it has many features to get that goal. One of them is to offload traffic processing to a HW acceleration chip.

     

    If you don't have this ePVA chip in your device, those tasks will be performed by software.

    Anyway, you have still many other enhancements. Check this out:

    https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K09948701

     

    Regards,

    Dario.

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Dario_Garrido
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Dec 13, 2020

Hello Prashanth.

 

FastL4 is a specific profile which goal is to enhance performance in L4 connections and it has many features to get that goal. One of them is to offload traffic processing to a HW acceleration chip.

 

If you don't have this ePVA chip in your device, those tasks will be performed by software.

Anyway, you have still many other enhancements. Check this out:

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K09948701

 

Regards,

Dario.