For more information regarding the security incident at F5, the actions we are taking to address it, and our ongoing efforts to protect our customers, click here.

Forum Discussion

steelplate_8766's avatar
steelplate_8766
Icon for Nimbostratus rankNimbostratus
Jun 16, 2010

retransmission interval for SYN

Is it possible to set this ? I saw a server behind sNAT take 4.5 seconds to respond to a SYN because it was busy. before sNAT the windows client would have silently handled this. with sNat the f5 r...
config
design
steelplate_8766's avatar
steelplate_8766
Icon for Nimbostratus rankNimbostratus
Jun 17, 2010
ok, it's not possible , and in my case it's a bug

 

 

SOL11073: Change in Behavior: The minimum TCP retransmission timeout was changed in BIG-IP version 10.1.0.

 

 

and is fixed in Hotfix-BIGIP-10.1.0-3372.0-HF1 , though it will still be shorter than windows on 3 retries