Bug ID 1002761: SCTP client's INIT chunks rejected repeatedly with ABORT during re-establishment of network link after failure

Last Modified: Oct 04, 2024

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP TMOS(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
15.1.2, 15.1.2.1, 15.1.3, 15.1.3.1, 16.0.0, 16.0.0.1, 16.0.1, 16.0.1.1, 16.1.0, 16.1.1, 16.1.2, 16.1.2.1, 16.1.2.2, 16.1.3, 16.1.3.1, 16.1.3.2, 16.1.3.3, 16.1.3.4, 16.1.3.5, 16.1.4, 16.1.4.1, 16.1.4.2, 16.1.4.3, 16.1.5, 16.1.5.1

Fixed In:
17.0.0, 16.0.1.2, 15.1.4

Opened: Mar 16, 2021

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

A SCTP client's INIT chunks are rejected repeatedly.

Impact

Client cannot reconnect to BIG-IP systems, even after the network failures are resolved.

Conditions

-- Client-side SCTP association times out and is terminated with ABORT. -- The client attempts to INIT the association again using the same source port.

Workaround

Fail over and restart tmm on the affected device.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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