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cheezus_115419
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May 07, 2013

Slow first outbound connection. Fast subsequent connections.

The problem is that the first outbound connection from a server to a host is very slow. The second and subsequent connections are very fast. We are testing wget 100m test files over http from vario...
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cheezus_115419
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May 07, 2013
Ok so it appears to have been the "auto last hop option". Which was default and enabled. After disabling everything is fine.

 

 

Another thing to note is that forwarding ip virtual server bypasses the tcpdump. That's why my tcpdumps looked way too small and threw me off the trail by leading me to think traffic was routing around the f5's.