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Type11_8030
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Mar 23, 2011

Http file download is 50% slower through f5 than direct to apache server

We have been seeing some slowness when serving large files from 4 Sun 5120s behind a f5 BigIP 3600 running apache.     For a test we have isolated a setup in test with one 5120 one f5 3600 and...
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Mar 23, 2011
Hi Brendon,

 

 

Can you capture a tcpdump of the direct connection to the server and compare that with slower transfer via LTM? I would guess this is an issue at layer 4 that might require tweaking the TCP profile. You could try comparing the default TCP profile with the LAN optimized profile for client and serverside connections.

 

 

Aaron