Last Modified: Jan 09, 2026
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP APM
Known Affected Versions:
17.1.3, 17.5.1.3
Opened: Dec 31, 2025 Severity: 3-Major
Intermittent tunnel traffic drops when Network Access compression is enabled Tunnel stability is restored when Compression is disabled No client-side errors clearly indicating unsupported configuration Admins can still enable compression via BIG-IP UI/CLI despite deprecation
-- Intermittent VPN tunnel instability -- Hard-to-diagnose issues, potentially leading to unknowingly enabling unsupported configurations
-- BIG-IP APM with Network Access resource configured -- Compression enabled on Network Access resource -- Edge Client version 7.2.6 or later -- VPN tunnel established -- Intermittent traffic flow over the tunnel
Disable compression in the BIG-IP Network Access config and connectivity profile config
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