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fabianlumy
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Jan 31, 2013

TCP KeepAlive - Avoid long client connection without data

Hello,   I have virtual servers with type "Standard", TCP profile and HTTP profile. (BigIP LTM 1600, v 11.2.0)   The problem is that some users stay connected indefinitly using TCP keep alive. ...
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What_Lies_Bene1
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Feb 05, 2013
The Idle Timeout in the FastHTTP profile is for TCP, not HTTP unfortunately.

 

 

I'm out of ideas now. The real issue here is that a) there are a number of poorly configured clients out there and b) not honouring the keepalives would violate the TCP/IP standard really.