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Stephen_Kaiser
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Apr 19, 2021

vIP Queue not releasing connections

I've configured a vIP with a default pool, created an iRule that inspects the http:payload, and routed certain requests to a second pool based on the payload contents. This was working perfectly unti...
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Nikoolayy1
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Apr 19, 2021

Did you check the F5 connection table during the issue to see that F5 does not time out the connections?

 

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K53851362

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K40033505

 

 

Also I have seen issues where the F5 and servers have different Time_Wait configured and if you used something like netstat -an to see if there many connections is Time_Wait state on the servers, this could have been the issue.

 

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K14400019