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wayney_128269
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Oct 22, 2009

Is there a TCP connection ceiling for BIGIP?

  eg. I have alot of customers coming in to my web app through a corporate proxy. Is there a TCP connection limit on the BIGIP coming in from a single IP? If so, how can I can I get around this i...
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hoolio
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Oct 22, 2009
Hi,

 

 

There is a limit with TCP of 2^16 = 65535 theoretical connections between two hosts. Other than that I don't think LTM enforces any limit on the number of TCP connections one client can open to a VIP.

 

 

What is the issue you're seeing? Have you been able to capture tcpdumps of the failure? Is there anything interesting logged to /var/log/ltm on LTM?

 

 

Aaron