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grilledcheez_21
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusIssues with TCP Fragmentation?
Hello,
Implementing a new system here and I seem to be getting issues with handshake failures on the front end of the F5 intermittently (seems to be timing out). The first few transactions fail...
Mike_Dayton_108Nimbostratus
NimbostratusYou need to find out what the minimum MSS size is for the path. You can try creating a new profile that defaults from tcp-lan-optimized and adjust the MSS to 1400 or 1360.
Mike
Mike_Dayton_108Nimbostratus
NimbostratusI am with Boneyard on this. There are too many variables. If you have different MSS sizes on different sides of the LTM, you may want to enable proxy mss.
Proxy Maximum Segment - Specifies, when checked (enabled), that the system advertises the same maximum segment size (MSS) to the server as that of the client. By default, this setting is disabled.