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gersbah's avatar
gersbah
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Apr 28, 2021

What does "Proxy Options" do in a tcp profile?

I recently had a case where disabling the "Proxy Options" flag in the server side tcp profile solved a massive performance issue (page load times went from 10-20 seconds with this setting to millisec...
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boneyard's avatar
boneyard
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Apr 28, 2021

the newer K articles about the TCP profile provide a more definitive explanation, they say it is only time stamps and it seems to start getting disabled by default from version 13.1. so F5 saw that it causes issue is my interpretation of such changes.

 

14.x: https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K29377715

13.x: https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K10711911

 

for sure the question will stay if it perhaps did different things on 12.x and earlier, can't say for 100% sure. support case is the most certain way.