converting UDP connections to TCP

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say this isn't possible. When you define a virtual server, you need to specify a protocol of UDP or TCP. The clientside and serverside profiles have to be the same protocol. I don't know of anyway to work around this. But if someone else has ideas, I'd like to see.

 

 

And I'm not sure about the utility of this even if it were possible. There isn't a mechanism in UDP or syslog for the BIG-IP to tell the Catalyst that it needs to resend a dropped or corrupt packet.

 

 

If you want more intelligent checks, couldn't you use an SNMP monitoring station to poll the catalysts? The SNMP station would be able to retry the polling if it didn't get an answer from the destination host.

 

 

Aaron