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johnkrum_45755
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Jul 30, 2009

Forwarding virtual server stops after 15 sec

I was planning on setting up remote administration to servers physical address through the F5. I set up a Forwarding virtual server through the GUI (running latest 10 code) type = Host address is the ...
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hoolio
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Aug 04, 2009
If you configure an indefinite timeout, LTM would never reap the connections itself. So you open yourself to a DOS attack if clients open a lot of TCP connections and neither the client or server closes them.

 

 

Aaron