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Alan_Booth_1042
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Aug 02, 2010

FIN ACK not being forwarded

We have recently switched to the F5 and we are having a problem closing TCP connections between the F5 and a WebSphere Process Server cluster. The FIN ACK coming from the client is not being forwarded...
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Alan_Booth_1042
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Aug 02, 2010
I will have to get back to you on the specifics. As far as I know it is a standard VIP configuration. The connections are not getting reused. The WebSphere applications get to the max 20,000 TCP connections on each server and then the node agent cannot make a connection to them to check status resulting in a restart.