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Ronald_Meier_14
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Jan 26, 2017

Virtual Server makes Three-Way Handshake with no acitve pools

Hi, I know that this topic is not new, but I hope there is a (new) possibility to change the default behavior. When a virtual server has no active poolmembers it still completes the three-way han...
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Vijay_E
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Jan 26, 2017

CLIENT_ACCEPTED is triggered after the 3-way handshake. So, you will still see the connection being completed. F5 has full TCP/IP stack for client and another stack for server. It will usually accept the 3-way handshake before initiating 3-way handshake for the server/pool member, if you are using Standard VS.

 

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