Protocol Settings

Click Pools > Edit > Protocol Settings to configure settings for managing connections between the Traffic Manager and back-end nodes. These settings include:

•Whether to force a connection from the Traffic Manager to the nodes to originate from a particular IP address.

•Whether to maintain HTTP keepalive connections to the nodes.

•The maximum number of times to establish a connection or wait for a response from a node.

•The maximum number of nodes to try before giving up and returning an error to the client.

•Whether to close connections from the Traffic Manager to the nodes with a RST packet rather than the default FIN packet. See Protocol Settings for further information on the effect of this setting.

You do not normally need to change any of these settings. The default values have been chosen to give good performance on a wide range of systems.