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szkwg_89687
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Oct 08, 2012

tcp profile for heavy packet loss

at this moment my ltm is using 'High Speed'. when there are heavy packet loss, the retransmission timeout goes to 32 seconds, and sometimes goes to 64 seconds. And this causes a whole transaction tak...
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What_Lies_Bene1
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Oct 09, 2012

Fair enough. To reduce the maximum retransmission interval to 8s you'll have to modify the default TCP Profile (or ideally create a new custom one) and reduce the number of retransmissions from 8 to 4. This will result in a max retransmission interval of 8s but obviously means only 4 retransmissions are attempted and past that the source client will have to retransmit or recover as appropriate.

 

There's no way to independently modify the retransmission interval alone, as far as I'm aware.