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JamesCrk
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Mar 21, 2023

Route friendly virtual server

In article - K7595 its discussed that the default routing behaviour of a virtual server is stateful. We got bitten by this once where a session apparently got out of state and got dropped (the traffi...
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Nikoolayy1
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Mar 22, 2023

 

F5 for TCP traffic should send TCP RST not drop it and you can enable debug for this :
K13223: Configuring the BIG-IP system to log TCP RST packets

https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K13223

 

Still this may cause high cpu during working hours or log file getting too big and hard disk utlization, so better do this outide working hours.

 

For UDP it is a bit harder .