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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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Aug 19, 2013

Aaron,

 

thanks I think your last sentence in the first post acknowledges that we see the things in the right way and the default values are just "untested" by F5. So considering that, connections inheriting the default TCP Profile will not send any keepalive but will be disconnected after IDLing for 5 minutes.

 

kind regards Michael Lang