Bug ID 1472853: PVA may not fully come up on large platforms with many tmms

Last Modified: Sep 24, 2024

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

Known Affected Versions:
14.1.4, 14.1.4.1, 14.1.4.2, 14.1.4.3, 14.1.4.4, 14.1.4.5, 14.1.4.6, 14.1.5, 14.1.5.1, 14.1.5.2, 14.1.5.3, 14.1.5.4, 14.1.5.6, 15.1.10.3, 15.1.10.4, 15.1.10.5

Fixed In:
16.1.5

Opened: Jan 02, 2024

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

The PVA may not be fully initialized when tmm starts. This can lead to versions issues such as * flows not being accelerated * flows getting reset with idle timeout or "No flow found for ACK" reset cause messages. Log message similar to the following is seen in /var/log/tmm2: notice ePVA had not been globally enabled by HSBE2 LBB

Impact

-- flows may not be accelerated -- flows may get reset with idle timeout or "No flow found for ACK" reset cause messages.

Conditions

-- BIG-IP iSeries i15800 platform. -- PVA enabled -- Tmm that has not been restarted since boot.

Workaround

Restart tmm

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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