Slow first outbound connection. Fast subsequent connections.

I'm working with f5's consulting all week and they aren't 100% sure. They've searched and ping others but no response yet. From that they can see it doesn't appear to be disabled. Do you know the command to check the global status of cmp?

 

 

As for why it helps us, no one's really sure about that either. The cisco router is the default gateway for the server. The f5 has local floating ip's on the same subnet as the server. f5 and server can talk directly. Cisco vlan (server gateway) has policy if non local traffic forward to f5. So Cisco sends redirect and server communicates directly with f5, f5 communicates directly with server. It would seem that in both cases the last hop would be the server and not actually Cisco router.