Closing the server side connection only

Yes, what I am trying to do is connection splitting. The connection is TCP-based. Before we added the BIG-IP box, the client machine used to maintain an always-on connection with the server. After we put the BIG-IP box between the client and the server, we want to keep the always-on connection only between the client and the BIG-IP. The BIG-IP box will act like an agent, which will only connect to the server when it receives a request from the client. It will then disconnect from the server once it recieves the response.

 

 

My understanding is that we can specify the serverside context when executing the command. But, as you said, the drop command will also abort the client connection. Does that mean the serverside keywords is not going to work as I expected in this case?