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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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L4L7_53191
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Jun 27, 2011
Pretty much, yes. It's a happy medium - you still get a table of client->vip->pool_member but the entries will clear out quickly. A zero timeout requires more configuration that may not be worth it.

 

 

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