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Jinshu_134425
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Mar 31, 2016

Delay in packet pass-through

Hellp Champs,   We have observed delay in packet traverse when using BIG IP. We are usign forwarding VIP and fast l4 profile. Without bigip source can reach destination in 1 sec travel time but w...
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Jinshu
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Apr 01, 2016
It is 1 second (1000ms) delay. We are calculating the total time for transfer. I have seen tcp out of order packers in the capture. Does it make any difference in F5 to forward to destination. Since we have PVA Acceleration enabled in Fast L4 by default, seems it should not delay theoretically, isn’t it?