CCNA Data Center DCICT 640-916 Official Cert Guide

TCP Server Reuse

ACE enables you to reduce the number of open TCP connections on the server by allowing the connections to persist and be reused by multiple client connections. ACE maintains a pool of open TCP connection to the server and maps the client requests to this pool. TCP connections can be reused if clients are using the same TCP options. Figure 19-11 illustrates how the TCP server-reuse feature works in ACE.

Figure 19-11 TCP Server Reuse

Figure 19-12 shows a typical load-balancing setup of the Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE). The ACE interface or VLAN that connects to the servers is called a server-side interface or server-side ...