How does BigIP define a connection

Hello CB,

 

 

Appreciate your response, I found out that a state between either two IP addresses, IP addresses and ports or IP addresses and ports and limited L7 information consists of a connection. Apparently and ICMP packet traversing BigIP from one host to another is also considered to be connection. In my deployment, i've got BigIP sitting inline between upstream and downstream router. Most of my virtual servers configured to process the traffic are Performance L4 Virtual servers. Apparently, I came across a field called 'Connection idle timeout' which is by default set to 300sec. By changing this value to 120sec. I discovered that the number of active connections dropped down by 35% and memory utilization also dropped down by 40% without creating any sorts of issues in the network. Hence, the reduction of 'connection idle timeout' value has helped in fixing my issue.

 

 

Sagar