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steelplate_8766
Nimbostratus
May 25, 2010sNAT to Windows server and port collision
Hi,
I have an F5 doing sNAT, and the problem I face is that the windows server keeps the port in time_wait (currently default 240 seconds windows 2003 server). The F5 will attempt to reuse the client...
steelplate_8766
Nimbostratus
Jun 18, 2010I tried setting the f5 to always change client port, as this should have caused the f5 to use a new port that wasn't in use, but instead it makes the problem worse, I see the f5 use try to reuse the changed client port in < 1 second, again I assume this is because the f5 sees a full close.
see from above from my first post. I prefer to have the option to maintain ports though as it makes wireshark views of the f5 tcpdump a little less painful.
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