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dragonflymr
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Mar 18, 2015

SNAT, VS and multiple Idle Timeout setting

Hi,   I am a bit lost how Idle Timeout (IT) is managed when there are different object involved for given connection.   VS has Idle Timeout set via TCP profile (let's say it's Standard VS), SNA...
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BinaryCanary_19
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Mar 19, 2015

As far as I know,

 

  • For any traffic handled by Virtual, the Idle timeout of the Virtual takes effect.

     

  • For traffic handled by *NAT, the timeout of the *NAT takes effect.

     

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dragonflymr
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Mar 19, 2015
Thanks, well testing is the king of course but it takes time :-( Your way things are working seems to be OK and simple so I hope it's working like that. Because of some references to multiple timeouts in docs I lost my confidence how it's handled. Thanks for help, Piotr