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Yazid_Abdesslam
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May 11, 2016

Traffic over VS (https) is slower than servers directly

Hello,   I'm Using F5 Standard VIP, protocol https configured ass SSL offload (Termination) which means that I'm decrypting SSL packets on F5 Box & sending traffic to an http pool. Actually this c...
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Kishore_Kumar_2
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May 11, 2016

Just because you have mentioned using TCP-LAN and WAN optimized profiles, there is a feature called Nagle Algorithm which will wait the buffer size to be filled to forward the packets further, so in order to mitigate this issue - You will have to disable Nagle Algorithm to have latency issues answered.

http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/definition/Nagles-algorithm

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Nagle's AlgorithmDisabledWhen this setting is enabled, the BIG-IP system applies Nagle's algorithm to reduce the number of short segments on the network by holding data until the peer system acknowledges outstanding segments

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    Yazid_Abdesslam
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    May 11, 2016
    Thank you Kishore, I verified the Tcp Profiles. Nagle's Algorithm is disabled on all of them. should I enable it so? BR.