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luther_56179
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Aug 13, 2012

How to Implement a keepAlive Client-Side Connection

Hi,     Our Configuration is like this:   [Clients- Host] ---connection--> [F5/BigIP] ---connection---> [Servers].       F5/BigIP kills the connection when the server spend a lot o...
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Aug 14, 2012
As Nitass said, keep-alives do make sense in this scenario so that the connection is kept open via the server's keep-alives for as long as it takes to send the response. If you only extend the TCP idle timeout on LTM, you'd eat up more memory for all connections that aren't closed cleanly.

 

 

Aaron