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Sumanta_88744
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Jul 22, 2016
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Connection rate limit not working in F5

Hi Experts   During a recent test scenario on F5 LTM 2000, we tried rate limiting the virtual server based on (1) only source address and (2) virtual server and source address. I had set rate limi...
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    Yann_Desmarest_
    Jul 22, 2016

    Hi,

     

    The rate limit just limit the number of new connections per second. It's not the number of concurrent connections.

     

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Yann_Desmarest_
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Jul 22, 2016

Hi,

 

The rate limit just limit the number of new connections per second. It's not the number of concurrent connections.

 

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Sumanta_88744
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Jul 22, 2016

Hi All

 

Thanks. In that case, how do we limit 20K concurrent connections from a single source IP?