prashanth
Dec 13, 2020Nimbostratus
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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...
- 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.