How to achieve maximum TCP throughput on LFN

On July 9, 2016March 25, 2017 By insidepacketIn PacketLeave a comment

Firstly, what's LFN? LFN means long fat network, often pronounced "elephan". In RFC 1072, a network is considered an LFN if its bandwidth-delay product is significantly larger than 105 bits (12500 bytes). Then you will possibly have another question: what bandwidth-delay product is? As Wiki suggested, bandwidth-delay product refers to the product of a data …

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F5 wireshark plugin

On July 3, 2016February 15, 2017 By insidepacketIn Packet3 Comments

When you perform packet capture on F5 LTM, you possibly notice there are some unknow fileds in the packet capture. These unknown data fileds are the additional diagnostic data which is encoded on tcpdump captures by F5 LTM. F5 has provided the wireshark plugin to decode the unknown fileds. You can download the plugin from …

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