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ichalis_37981
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Nov 12, 2012

How to close a FastL4 connection

Hi all,   Currently trying to optimise a heavily loaded Bigip. We have a FASTL4 VIP with an iRule running that, in some cases disallows traffic by dropping it (using "drop" command).   We then ...
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What_Lies_Bene1
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Nov 12, 2012

Have you tried the reject command instead? I've no way of testing right now but I'd imagine it closes the connection which drop won't as by definition you're not informing the client that you are not accepting the traffic/connection.