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Leonardo_39231
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Jul 15, 2013

IP::idle_timeout Issue

I have a "IP::idle_timeout" setting of 1800 seconds that I apply to traffic when the Host header starts with the word "server". The problem is that some of the traffic gets the 1800 seconds timeout ...
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dlhace
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Jul 14, 2015

I ran into this same problem. I wanted to reset the idle_timeout only for certain things.

 

I found the resolution in the documentation for IP::idle_timeout. https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.IP__idle_timeout.ashx

 

It appears that if you set idle timeout at the VIP level it set it for both client and server. But when I tried to set it in the irule I was only setting the client. The server needs to also be set so both sides are maintained.