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Dazzla_20011
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Apr 12, 2011

Difference between tcp and tcp half open monitor

Hi,     What's the difference between the a tcp and tcp half open montor?     I thought the Tcp monitor just checked the tcp three way hadshake and tcp half open just checked SYN-ACk is ...
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Austin_Geraci
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Apr 19, 2011
You said:

 

"We have an application which falls over when I apply the default tcp monitor."

 

 

What monitor was applied prior?

 

 

 

Generally, you use TCP Half Open when you don't want to leave a bunch of connections hanging out there on the server that need to timeout..

 

 

 

 

Definitley take the one posters advice and run a tcpdump to see what's actually going on..