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Oliver_Schmidt
Nimbostratus
Nimbostratushttp keep alive timeout
I want to define a http keep alive timeout for the client - bigip connection. In an http profile you can only configure the max. no. of connections. The keep alive timeout in an oneconnect profile def...
Oliver_SchmidtNimbostratus
NimbostratusThe following irule seems to work:
when HTTP_REQUEST {IP::idle_timeout 60}
when HTTP_RESPONSE {IP::idle_timeout 5}
in opposite to an apache keep alive timeout the connection now ends with a RST not with a FIN, but that is cosmetic.
I know the BIG-IP has no problems in handling many connections. But we have several other components between BIG-IP and the client, i. e. some firewalls. We receive 2000 connections per second. A timeout of 60 implies a minimum of 120000 connections. That's to much.
