What are Idle Connection and Round-Trip Connection?


  • Question
    What are Idle Connection and Round-Trip Connection?

  • Answer
    The Proxy device usually handles connections coming from the web-client to the web-server.

    The connection coming in to the Finjan proxy device from the web-client is defined by Finjan as Idle connection.
    The connection going out from Finjan proxy to the web-server is defined as Round-Trip connection.

    Below are the default timeout settings of these connections:



    Finjan recommends leaving the default settings as is, in order to prevent unefficient utilization of system resources.

  • Software Version
    8.3.x
    8.4.x

  • This article applies to:
    NG 1000
    NG 5000
    NG 6000
    NG 8000
    This article was previously published as:
    Finjan KB 1460

    Last Modified 3/23/2009.
    https://support.trustwave.com/kb/KnowledgebaseArticle13323.aspx