Can I reduce flow's timeout (less then 16 sec.) ?

[zeppa]

Hello,

I need an answer for the following questions:

- How I can reduce the flow's timeout of a connection from a client to a web server through the css, that is, make it smaller than 16 sec (the default value) ?

- Why the flow from a client to a server that goes down don't is redirect to another server in the pool of services by the css?

Thanks.

[Gilles Dufour]

1/ the default varies depending on the type of traffic. It is 8 sec for HTTP and 600 sec for telnet.

You can normally override this value with the command 'flow port1 timeout ' for a CSS 1st generation.

For CSS 2nd generation, this command may exist.

If not, you can only increase the timeout - not reduce it.

I don't see however why you would need to reduce it.

Most of the time people complain it is already to low.

2/ The CSS let the application decide if it should failover or not. That is if the client keeps sending traffic to the server and this one is down, the client should timeout and reopen a connection which will be forwarded by the CSS to a new alive service.

Regards,

Gilles.

[zeppa]

Hello,

the most serious problem is that, when a server goes down, the following requests from the client are still forwarded by the css to the same server, until the end of the first flow's timeout (that is, the flow of the first request, made before the server goes down).

In other words, althought the css correctly see the first server down, it doesn't forward the following request to another (alive) server in the pool.

Most important, I'm working with a CSS 11501 and the version of its sw is 7.30.0.05 (Standard Feature Set).

Thanks.