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Network_center1
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Nov 04, 2019

Slow FTP connection behind F5

Hello there,   I have an issue I don't understand.   Some customers connect on one of our FTP server behind the F5. Public IP of the virtual server on port 21 > default pool > one server por...
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Network_center1
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Nov 12, 2019

Sorry I forgot that people indeed use the DNS name for this public IP, but I realized all my tests with the public IP directly and had the same issue.

I made some intensive tests and the issue seems to be related to the server behind because everyone always have these delays when connecting to this specific FTP service.

Our windows team is now investigating, therefore this topic can be forgotten and offered to Chtulhu :D

Thanks for your suggestions :)

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    boneyard
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    Nov 16, 2019

    thanks for reporting back, always good to see it ends up to be something different.