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kiwibloke_17342
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Mar 27, 2012

HSL logging sending multiple log entries in one message?

Hi,     I have an iRule that generates Apache style "combined" format access logs for one of our sites. it is based on the iRule for "W3c logging".     Our LTMs run 10.x so HSL is an optio...
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Mar 27, 2012
Done the TCP dump.

 

 

It looks as if the LTM is sending multiple log entries in some of its transmissions

 

 

I have seen some packets that contain upto 3 access log entries.

 

 

I wonder if this is a direct consequence of using TCP over UDP.

 

 

If using UDP it wouldn't have the overhead of a handshake on every packet so it probably just fires them out individually. Using TCP it does so it might be optimizing each sent packet to contain as much information a possible so as to reduce the overhead of the handshake.

 

 

I think I need to log a support ticket.

 

 

:)