As soon as apache gets a request, it will initialize the loadbalancer sub-system if aslb-plugin is installed. This will open connection to appserver to check status and keep this connection open(To detect instance failure). Hence you will see one connection established at the appserver. This will all happen as part of initialization. Only after initialization it can figure whether the request can be handled by it or not. So even when request need not be serviced by loadbalancer, the connections will be created.
As for other connections in TIME_WAIT state, please remove aslb-lbplugin from Apache and check how many connection are opened at startup. This may not be related to aslb-lbplugin at all.
Thanks,
Kshitiz
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