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CSS11506 - flow-timeout-multiplier

a.veschak
Level 1
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Hello,

I have a pair of Sun Directory Proxy servers behind our CSS with the following config...

<<< START CONFIG >>>

!************************** SERVICE **************************

service DirProxy_mmcdif22_636

keepalive type tcp

keepalive tcp-close fin

keepalive port 636

ip address 172.16.30.72

active

service DirProxy_mmcdif62_636

keepalive type tcp

keepalive tcp-close fin

keepalive port 636

ip address 172.16.30.76

active

!*************************** OWNER ***************************

owner Security

content DirProxy_pdd4_636

add service DirProxy_mmcdif22_636

add service DirProxy_mmcdif62_636

protocol tcp

port 636

vip address 123.123.102.201

balance aca

flow-timeout-multiplier 200

active

!*************************** GROUP ***************************

group v4DirProxy_group

add destination service DirProxy_mmcdif22_636

add destination service DirProxy_mmcdif62_636

vip address 172.16.30.12

active

<<< END CONFIG >>>

During a recent outage of mmcdif62, all existing connections appear to have been 'orphaned' on the CSS for approximately 53 minutes... which correlates with the 'flow-timeout-multiplier 200' config on this content rule.

Is there any way to overcome these 'orphaned' connections during a failure scenario as shown above?

Also, is it possible to configure the CSS to act upon source IP address info? If so, perhaps this would be a solution to our problem.

Thanks,

-Adam

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Gilles Dufour
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

Adam,

we consider the application should recover from this by itself.

If the client keeps retransmitting and the server does not respond, the application should reset the connection and open a new one which would then be loadbalanced to a working server.

The ACE module has a feature to automatically kill connections linked to a dead server.

Unfortunately this feature does not exist on the CSS.

Regarding the client ip address, you have configured a group to do client nat.

The server will therefore lose the client info.

This is however not related to the connection hang issue.

Gilles.

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