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ichalis_37981
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Nov 12, 2012

How to close a FastL4 connection

Hi all,   Currently trying to optimise a heavily loaded Bigip. We have a FASTL4 VIP with an iRule running that, in some cases disallows traffic by dropping it (using "drop" command).   We then ...
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Nov 12, 2012
drop will just remove the connection table entry on LTM. The client or server would need to send another packet to get a reset and remove their connection. As Steve suggested, if you want to instruct the client and/or server to close the connection, you can use reject to send a TCP reset.

 

 

Aaron