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dragonflymr
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Oct 12, 2015

When TCP Idle Timeout counter starts

Hi,   I checked related SOL and docs and still I am not sure how this timeout works. Logically it should be used for established TCP connections - so only for connections that finished 3WHS. Proba...
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Oct 16, 2015

HI,

 

That is probably closest to what I am looking for but for some reason only FastL4 not in TCP.

 

Anyway more important here is when Idle Timeout counter starts to tick - only after 3WHS finished or from first SYN packet received - that would be not logical as there is yet no TCP connection established but...

 

If Idle Timeout is working as above then what is timeout for 3WHS for TCP profile - as already stated there is no such setting in TCP profile - so maybe some there is some hard coded default here?

 

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