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MAbbas's avatar
MAbbas
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Feb 05, 2022

Grpc Keepalive and F5 full proxy

Hi - my F5 is running v16.1 - and is a full gRPC proxy - the problem i am having i s clinet sends gRPC ping to keep session open - to the F5 .but F5 cannot keep the session alive as there is no traf...
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Hello you mean HTTP/2? If so because this is new thing that F5 support better check with the TAC if there is new bug:

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K61517014

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K47440400

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K04412053

 

Also maybe test if the servers can also send keep-alives as it seems that the client keep alive is not forwarded to the servers by the F5 device because of a bug or on purpose and maybe test if removing the web compression or web acceleration profiles (web cache) as there are some known bugs with those profiles and HTTP/2.

 

https://cdn.f5.com/product/bugtracker/ID714372.html

 

Also you may test enabling the TCP keep alives under the TCP profiles:

 

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K8049

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K13004262

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MAbbas
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Feb 06, 2022

thanks for the reply . F5 is working fine as a gRPC -http2 proxy .

the problem i have is - client sends GRPC pings - that teh F5 responds being a proxy - hence no traffic goes to the backend server . hence the question - i sthere a way to send those pings to the backend server - other than keeping the socket open with a timeout value on teh server side.

thanks