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Bryan_A
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Jun 07, 2017

Streaming video, TCP reset packets, standard virtual server

We have a standard virtual server that has a few apache servers as pool members. We notice when content is streamed via web browser, MP4 for example, a connection build-up occurs between the LTM an...
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dragonflymr
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Jun 07, 2017

Hi,

 

I guess Performance (L4) solves this problem because it's packet-by-packet, no content spooling on BIG-IP etc. So RST packets are just passed to backend.

 

You mentioning that reason against using it is loosing L7 functionality - but what exactly? iRules, cookie persistence?

 

If you tried to remove HTTP profile from Standard then you as well was disabling L7 - so why not use Performance (L4) if it works for your apps?

 

Piotr