Hello,
Was wondering if anyone has tried to setup an HA like setup, specifically active/passive through two Stunnel servers and F5 load balancers.
The problem I have is that TCP health checks (active checks) from the F5 are causing session initiation all the way to the 3rd party on the other side and this is causing a lot of unnecessary TCP traffic at the transport layer. The good thing is that the F5 closes these TCP sessions, but the problem is the 3rd party thinks someone is trying to brute force or something.
Does anyone know how to maintain the TCP active health checks that the F5 does, but at the same time not cause a session initiation all the way to the 3rd party? Or if it’s not possible to stop the session initiation, would there be any option where something can be adjusted in the stunnel side so that the other side sees only one TCP health check as opposed to multiple every few seconds?