Listeners for your Gateway Load Balancers - Elastic Load Balancing
Listener attributes
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Listeners for your Gateway Load Balancers

When you create your Gateway Load Balancer, you add a listener. A listener is a process that checks for connection requests.

Listeners for Gateway Load Balancers listen for all IP packets across all ports. You cannot specify a protocol or port when you create a listener for a Gateway Load Balancer.

When you create a listener, you specify a rule for routing requests. This rule forwards requests to the specified target group. You can update the listener rule to forward requests to a different target group.

Listener attributes

The following are the listener attributes for Gateway Load Balancers:

tcp.idle_timeout.seconds

The tcp idle timeout value, in seconds. The valid range is 60-6000 seconds. The default is 350 seconds.

send_tcp_reset.on_idle_timeout.enabled

Indicates whether the Gateway Load Balancer sends a TCP reset (RST) to the sender of traffic. If enabled, the Gateway Load Balancer sends the RST when a TCP flow's idle timeout expires, or when it receives a non-SYN TCP packet for a flow that is not in the flow table. The possible values are true and false. The default is false. After sending the RST, the Gateway Load Balancer removes the flow entry from its flow table.

For more information, see Update idle timeout.