Forum Discussion
NikhilB
Feb 15, 2015Employee
There is alot of good documentation on F5's support website which details this. Here is just one of them:
https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/4000/700/sol4707.html
One of the differences is by applying a http profile to say, a standard profile. In this case the F5 will parse layer 7 traffic (http) based on the settings in the http profile. A performance layer 4 (fastL4) profile forwards packets on a packet by packet basis (extremely fast): and does just that, at the socket level.