公开(公告)号：US11178230B1

公开(公告)日：2021-11-16

申请号：US17099890

申请日：2020-11-17

Applicant: VMWARE, INC.

Inventor： Rajagopal Sreenivasan ,  Varun Lakkur Ambaji Rao ,  Hiral Mehta

IPC: H04L29/08 ,  H04L29/06

Abstract: Described herein are systems, methods, and software to dynamically set a keepalive status for a client-server connection. In one implementation, a load balancer, providing load balancing operations for a plurality of servers, identifies a first FIN packet from a client to a server of the plurality of servers and sets a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) keepalive status in association the connection between the client and the load balancer. The proxy further identifies a second FIN packet from the server to the client and removes the TCP keepalive status in association with the connection in response to the second FIN packet.