Tag: OneConnect
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F5 – Bleeding Active Connections
Scenario: A Virtual Server is load balancing connections to a pool with 2 pool members. During maintenance window, one of the two pool members is disabled and maintenance is completed followed by the other pool member. However, as the users make continuous API calls every 5 seconds, the existing TCP connection never bleeds out. Even […]
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F5 OneConnect
F5 has a trademark feature called OneConnect that leverages HTTP 1.1 Keepalive. In this article, I will try to explain the functionality of OneConnect, underlying technology and its usage requirements. There are 2 main reasons that I have utilized OneConnect profile: Efficient reuse of server side connections (F5-Servers) L7 Content Switching i.e., when the F5 is […]