Bug ID 423332: Guaranteed license and DB variable setting

Last Modified: Apr 28, 2025

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.4.0

Fixed In:
11.4.1, 11.4.0 HF3

Opened: Jun 14, 2013

Severity: 2-Critical

Symptoms

Under Guaranteed policy and license, flows handling can remain in software. the DB variable appears to be guaranteed, but it was not taken by the TMM due to the handling race at startup of the DB variable and license.

Impact

Hardware flows can be handled by software.

Conditions

Guaranteed license version with DB variable settings.

Workaround

Make sure system have latency license, change the pva.acceleration to a different value, and then change it back into guaranteed policy. This will last till next restart.

Fix Information

A race condition involving tmm during startup with regard to db variables and license handling is now resolved.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

K10134038: F5 Bug Tracker Filter Names and Tips