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Ross_Vandegrift
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Jul 09, 2009

Wildcard forwarding VIP connections, Immediate Idle Timeout

Hi everyone,     In my LTM implementation, an HA pair of BIG-IP boxes act as the default gateway for clients that are load balanced behind it. As such, we need to provide IP service to the...
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hoolio
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Jul 09, 2009
Hi Ross,

 

 

You can create a separate 0.0.0.0:53/0.0.0.0 Forwarding IP, with a custom FastL4 VS and then apply a very short idle timeout just for the DNS. You could enable the VS only on the VLAN that your hosts will originate traffic from.

 

 

If you want to test your other scenarions, you could use the 'b conn all show all' output while making requests.

 

 

Aaron