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Doug_104173
Nimbostratus
Jul 16, 2010Simple Compression Question
Hopefully this is simple. If it apply the http compression profile on my LTM, will that compress traffic between the client and LTM AND compress traffic between the LTM and the nodes as well? Or is ...
Hamish
Cirrocumulus
Jul 19, 2010I used to wonder about this too.
But apart from using the F5 across the WAN (For which there's a module), where else would you want to incur the overhead of compressing and decompressing the traffic between the LTM and the servers? The whole idea of LTM's is to reduce the load on the servers. Not increase it by adding complexity to the data they have to handle
OK. Maybe there's are 1 or 2 borderline situations where the servers have oodles of CPU but saturated network links... In which case I say why don't you add server network interfaces... (e.g. etherchannel)
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