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F5_Jeff
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May 09, 2017

Multiple Request using single TCP Connection simultaneously

Hi everyone!

 

We need to have a single TCP Connection used by multiple request. Clients are behind the F5 LTM and the Server will accept only single TCP Connection. Different clients (lets say 2 clients) needs to connect to the server simultaneously.

 

Is there a way to do this? I believe that Oneconnect is not we are looking for since it will use the same tcp connection AFTER the first session

 

Thank you everyone. I hope someone can lend some help.

 

application delivery
BIG-IP
LTM
  • JG's avatar
    JG
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    May 09, 2017

    What do you mean by "Clients are behind the F5 LTM"?

     

  • F5_Jeff's avatar
    F5_Jeff
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    May 09, 2017

    These clients are also servers that initiate connections to F5.

     

  • JG's avatar
    JG
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    May 09, 2017

    Not clear what business requirement would need this, and I don't think one connection can handle two requests at exactly the same time.

     

    It seems you need to serialise client requests to a single connection. If we assume it uses the HTTP protocol, with OneConnect enabled, you can set the maximum number of connections to 1 on the pool member, and also enable request queueing.