Bug ID 430197: Host traffic response gets directed to the wrong tmm

Last Modified: Oct 17, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.4.1, 11.4.0, 11.3.0

Fixed In:
11.5.0, 11.4.1 HF4, 11.4.0 HF6, 11.3.0 HF9

Opened: Sep 10, 2013

Severity: 2-Critical

Related Article: K14980

Symptoms

When source port and destination port are same, traffic initiated from the host, such as NTP, may have the response directed to the wrong tmm, resulting in the response being dropped.

Impact

Host traffic like NTP, or any other traffic from hosts whose source and destination ports are the same, might not work properly.

Conditions

The traffic has to be initiated from the host. The source and destination ports have to be the same (though some port numbers may succeed in spite of them being same). The platform needs to have HDAG hardware. Specifically, the following platforms are affected by this issue: -- BIG-IP 5000s/5200v (C109), -- BIG-IP 7000s/7200v (D110), -- BIG-IP 10000s/10200v (D113), -- VIPRION Blade 4300 (A108), -- VIPRION Blade 2250 (A112).

Workaround

None. Unless the protocol can be configured to work with a source and destination port numbers that are different.

Fix Information

Prior to this release, HDAG platforms could send traffic with the same source and destination ports to the wrong tmm. NTP traffic typically has the same source and destination port. This problem has been corrected.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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