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andy_12_5042
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Sep 04, 2013

LTM TCP Connection management

I am trying to understand why the F5 always shows 2-3 times more active sessions for a pool member than is actaully in the physical server state table. In addition I am seeing a problem with having L...
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Sep 04, 2013

for the record, this does not override the hardcoded value in the code and does not work . ( I tested) I dont see anything in the source that would honor this change via sysctl. (Its easy to see the timers of a socket in any state with -o flag to netstat)

 

But again, I cant see how this could be the source of the issue based on how the F5 SHOULD be handling connections. This is where I wish we actaully had support :) but no doubt 9.25 would be a "yeah go ahead and upgrade to newer code first"..