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Sayali
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Mar 24, 2020
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How to allow F5 to do basic routing and allow out of order syn-acks

Hi,   I am pretty new to F5 Load balancers so this might be a very simple question.   I have below setup:   Client --- > LB (VIP) ---> Servers. I am not SNATing so the LB retains sourc...
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  • PeteWhite's avatar
    PeteWhite
    Mar 24, 2020

    Create a new fastL4 profile based on the default called fastl4_loose and select loose init and loose close. Disable reset on timeout. Apply it to your virtual server

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Sayali
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Mar 25, 2020

Pete.. this seems to have worked. With a Forwarding-Rule virt along with settings you specified, LB no longer resets out of order syn-acks.

Thanks a lot.

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PeteWhite
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Mar 25, 2020
Great!