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Michael_Lang_61
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Aug 19, 2013

IDLE timeout and Keepalive Interval

Maybe someone can bring some light into our confusion regarding IDLE Timeout and Keepalive settings.   the default "tcp" protocol specifies the values: IDLE timeout: 300 seconds Keep Alive interva...
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Richard__Harlan
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Aug 19, 2013

The Keep-Alive is in sec. The main reason that the keep-Alive is a setting is the LTM as a full Proxy does not pass client Keep-alives to the server. You have to create a customer TCP profile for this. Also you do not want the LTM to send Keep-Alives to most connections. As Connection eat memory it is best for the LTM to create and remove connections when it can. Keep-Alives are best for long term connection to Databases server and such where the application expects the connection to always be open and will have unexpected results if it is not.