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sjko_254603
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Nov 07, 2016

Forwarding VS drop Fin Packet

Hi   When I close the communication, I want to know why the Forwarding VS drops the FIN packet.   Why is this happening?  
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Vijay_E
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Nov 07, 2016

F5 probably sends a FIN to the pool member or if you have OneConnect enabled, F5 may keep the server side connection open for re-use. Depends on where you are capturing the packet and which output you are utilizing to come to the conclusion.