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sundogbrew's avatar
sundogbrew
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Nov 10, 2017

TCP-timeout question

Hey guys, Got an interesting (to me anyway) question. I have a user with an application that does long queries that run in the background. It was timing out and so I created a new TCP profile for i...
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Hannes_Rapp
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Nov 13, 2017

Indeed, long idle timeouts aren't a good idea.

 

What BigIP features you use for this application? If it's just routing/balancing, maybe you could apply a FastL4 profile instead of TCP profile to your Virtual Server? If that's an option, I could recommend some custom settings to make F5 behave similar to a stateless router. This would be ideal, but will not work if you use HTTP-aware iRules or AFM module to deliver this application via BigIP.