Last Modified: Mar 30, 2024
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP TMOS
Known Affected Versions:
15.1.7, 15.1.6.1, 15.1.6, 15.1.5.1, 15.1.5, 14.1.5.1, 14.1.5, 14.1.4.6, 14.1.4.5, 14.1.4.4, 14.1.4.3, 14.1.4.2, 14.1.4.1, 14.1.4, 14.1.3.1, 14.1.3
Fixed In:
17.1.0, 15.1.8
Opened: Jun 21, 2022 Severity: 3-Major
The BIG-IP tenants running on an VELOS or rSeries system may incorrectly attempt to PVA accelerate traffic that goes through a VXLAN tunnel. That is, where the pool members are reachable through a VXLAN tunnel.
Connections fail. A packet capture from the F5OS layer shows packets arriving at the system, but not forwarded through the tunnel. As a result, packet retransmits are obeserved. A packet capture in the tenant shows packets arriving at the TMM, but with layer 3 and layer 4 headers rewritten to match the server-side connection information.
- BIG-IP tenant running on VELOS or rSeries. - Virtual server that processes traffic over a tunnel. For example, VXLAN, GRE, or IP-IP.
FastL4 acceleration is not supposed to work for traffic being load-balanced over a tunnel. To mitigate this issue, disable PVA acceleration in the FastL4 profile for virtual servers that will load-balance traffic over a tunnel.
Packets are successfully forwarded through the tunnel, these flows are not accelerated.