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ChadBigIP_14663
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Aug 20, 2013

Max Connections per VIP

Is there a Maximum Number of Connections that a VIP can have?   I have a LTM-3400 and wanted to know what the Max of Connections per VIP was.   I recently consolidated from 50 VIP's into 1 VIP...
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Kevin_Stewart
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Aug 20, 2013

An LTM-3400 has a max throughput of 1Gbps. That's about 55K and 110K connections per second, layer 7 and layer 4 respectively. That is the aggregate limitation of the box across all VIPs. So an LTM-3400 with a single VIP can handle roughly 1Gbps through that one VIP.