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Daniel_55334
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May 27, 2008

What exactly does FastL4 profile do?

Customer have to load balance a webserver. Using default settings it takes more than 10 seconds to completely load the webpage. After using the FastL4 profile it takes only 3 seconds. So what does it ...
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hooleylist
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Sep 10, 2008
If you want to perform layer7 inspection and/or modification of traffic, it's going to take more time and potentially add latency versus just forwarding packets on. I'm not sure how you get around it. That said, if you compare performance stats on like-for-like functionality, I think F5 comes out ahead of the competitors.

 

 

Aaron