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MAbbas
Cirrus
CirrusGrpc 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...
Daniel_Wolf
MVP
MVPHi MAbbas
I also did a bit of reading on this subject, this is my opinion:
When proxying the HTTP/2 protocol, the same connection to a pool member can be used for multiple requests coming from multiple clients at the same time.
Very much similiar to OneConnect in HTTP/1.1. Sending pings from a pariticular client over a reverse proxy would be somewhat inconsistent with whole idea of multiplexing.
From my understanding gRPC keepalive is ment for peer-to-peer but not for proxied connections. If there is a requirement that clients keep a connection with the backend, TCP keepalive might be an option.
Or extending the the TCP timeout value.
KR
Daniel