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Aoi_5678
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Feb 23, 2012

Bigip fastL4 Protocol

I have the following settings in the bigip and i figured out comparing another bigip using TCP protocol that the active connections showing in the performance data graphs became about 4 times more th...
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Hamish
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Feb 23, 2012
Remember that the fastL4 profile will also by default send an RST to both ends of the connection when it expires. So if you set it too low, you will actually kill off valid connections. Which may not always be what you want (I often set low timeouts on fastL4 profiles attached to network virtual servers. But also disable RST and enable loose-open/loose-close which makes the VS more like a router.