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Rob_78584
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Sep 07, 2007

Full TCP Proxy

I'm trying to setup the BigIP to provide a full TCP proxy for a legacy application which needs to hold open TCP connections, even if the back-end servers failover. The mainframe is running a propriet...
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Deb_Allen_18
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Oct 05, 2007
OneConnect actually disassociates the client side from the server side once the serverside connection goes idle, so if you have the "Action on Service Down" setting configured to "Re-select" instead of "Reject", a new server should be chosen.

 

 

If the server is sending a RST on failure, though, that may very well be propagated to the client, closing that connection as well.

 

 

HTH

 

/deb