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Adrien_Legros_1
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Dec 04, 2012

Sideband latency

Hello,   we try to use Sideband connection in V11 to call a WebService and grab a response. Everything seems to work but when I look in a TCPDUMP to see the call, I can always see 2 SYN packet at ...
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hoolio
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Dec 04, 2012
Hi Adrien,

 

 

Is the destination reachable from a TMM switch port? Can you try setting the timeout in the connect command?

 

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.connect.ashx

 

-timeout $ms is the time in milliseconds to wait to establish the connection.

 

 

Also, it would be more efficient for connection reuse to define the sideband destination(s) in a pool, create a "sideband" virtual server an internal network address and then connect to that virtual server name instead of using the specific IP:port.

 

 

Aaron