Bug ID 761685: Connections routed to a virtual server lose per-client connection mode if preserve-strict source port mode is set

Last Modified: May 29, 2024

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

Known Affected Versions:
14.0.0, 14.0.0.1, 14.0.0.2, 14.0.0.3, 14.0.0.4, 14.0.0.5, 14.0.1, 14.1.0, 14.1.0.1, 14.1.0.2, 14.1.0.3, 14.1.0.5, 14.1.0.6, 14.1.2, 15.0.0, 15.0.1, 15.0.1.1, 15.0.1.2, 15.0.1.3

Fixed In:
15.1.0, 15.0.1.4, 14.1.2.1, 14.0.1.1

Opened: Mar 18, 2019

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

Systems desiring to create a unique connection per connection client may silently end up with clients sharing an outgoing connection if routing uses a virtual server as the outgoing connection transport definition, and the virtual server has the source-port attribute set to preserve-strict.

Impact

Systems desiring to create a unique connection per connection client may silently end up sharing an outgoing connection.

Conditions

-- Routing using a virtual server as the transport definition for the outgoing connection. -- The virtual server has the source-port attribute set to preserve-strict.

Workaround

None.

Fix Information

Per-client mode is now maintained when routing to a virtual server, even when preserve-strict is selected.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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