Last Modified: Oct 15, 2025
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP TMOS
Known Affected Versions:
17.1.0, 17.1.0.1, 17.1.0.2, 17.1.0.3, 17.1.1, 17.1.1.1, 17.1.1.2, 17.1.1.3, 17.1.1.4, 17.1.2, 17.1.2.1, 17.1.2.2, 17.1.3, 17.5.0, 17.5.1, 17.5.1.2, 17.5.1.3
Opened: Oct 14, 2025 Severity: 4-Minor
When remote peer restarts and BGP graceful restart mechanism was advertised and received, BIG-IP might not immediately accept a new connection from a restarting peer.
New connection might take longer to establish.
- BGP graceful restart mechanism was advertised and received. - Remote peer restarting.
You can work the problem around by making sure BIG-IP local router-ID is lower than re-connecting peer ID.
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