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Daniel_55334
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May 27, 2008

What exactly does FastL4 profile do?

Customer have to load balance a webserver. Using default settings it takes more than 10 seconds to completely load the webpage. After using the FastL4 profile it takes only 3 seconds. So what does it ...
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Daniel_55334
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May 27, 2008
I found this in a askf5 solution

 

 

FastL4

 

 

Profile: FastL4

 

 

Advantage: Uses PVA to process packets

 

 

When to use: FastL4 is limited in functionality to socket level decisions (for example, src_ip:port dst_ip:port). Thus, you can use FastL4 only when socket level information for each connection is required for the virtual server.

 

 

What exactly does socket level decision mean? I don't think customer would need socket level information for each connection. Does that mean we should not use this profile?