Jim_Betts_47293
Dec 14, 2007Nimbostratus
Outbound routing creates connections that never clear
Hello:
I installed my shiny new GTM/LTM last Sunday and things looked pretty good until yesterday afternoon.
I noticed on the Performance->Active Connections graph that there was a constant upward trend over the week. Yesterday it reached about 180K requests and consequently (I suspect this way why) the system rebooted itself - not cool in the middle of the work day.
I have defined a Local Traffic Pool with my two edge routers. I have set this as the "Default IPv4" destination under Network->Routes. This may be of no consequence but I defined separate VLANs for the edge routers - since they are different subnets this seemed logical.
Also per the docs I defined a wildcard virtual server (0.0.0.0:0) and assigned it to my internal VLAN. I'm not sure what this is doing for me as it has no pool or rule attached to it but I'm almost to the point of sprinkling chicken blood on it while chanting Yellow Submarine lyrics backwards.
Also, could I be looking at this from the wrong direction? Is it possibly my inbound traffic that is driving up the connection count? My site isn't one that people would stay connected to for more than an hour at the absolute tops.
- Aaron is right, this pattern smacks of indefinite reaper timeout. Check to make sure the timeout on the tcp profile isn't set to 0/indefinite.