Bug ID 1135313: Pool member current connection counts are incremented and not decremented

Last Modified: May 29, 2024

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

Known Affected Versions:
12.1.6, 13.1.5, 13.1.5.1, 14.1.5.1, 14.1.5.2, 14.1.5.3, 14.1.5.4, 14.1.5.6, 15.1.7, 15.1.8, 15.1.8.1, 15.1.8.2, 16.1.3.1, 16.1.3.2, 16.1.3.3, 16.1.3.4, 16.1.3.5, 17.0.0.1, 17.0.0.2

Fixed In:
17.1.0, 16.1.4, 15.1.9

Opened: Aug 09, 2022

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

With a certain configuration the connection counts on a gateway pool may increment and not be decremented.

Impact

The connection counts are inflated.

Conditions

- A gateway pool with more than one member. - Autolasthop disabled. - A pool monitor with a TCP monitor where the pool member responds to the TCP handshake with data. Common services that do this are SSH, SMTP, and FTP.

Workaround

- Configure autolasthop. - Configure a receive string on the TCP monitor.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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