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williamcs
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Jul 02, 2023

source address persistence maximum session timeout

Understand that the source address persistence session timeout will start once the session goes idle (no traffic). 1.What is the maximum timeout setting? 2.The default value is 180s, any possible i...
  • Paulius's avatar
    Jul 03, 2023

    williamcs The following are the answers to your questions.

    1. Based on F5 documentation the value can be within range 1 and 2,147,483,647.

    2. The only real downside I see to increasing the timeout value higher than the default is if you have a high connection virtual server you could theoretically reach a very large persistence table which would cause performance degredation.