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Chris_Lira_5487
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Oct 16, 2008

idle timeout

In our BIGIP-LTM, the idle timeout is set to 300 seconds. When we run a transaction which takes about 10 minutes, we see a second transaction enter our web/app server after about 5 minutes (so we end...
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hoolio
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Oct 20, 2008
The TCP keepalive option might be better as the server will explicitly send the keepalive when it intends to use the connection. Compare this with having the BIG-IP hold all idle connection table entries for that long.

 

 

Aaron