Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP LTM
Known Affected Versions:
11.4.1, 11.5.0, 11.5.1, 11.5.2, 11.5.3, 11.5.4, 11.5.5, 11.5.6, 11.5.7, 11.5.8, 11.5.9, 11.5.10, 11.6.0, 11.6.1, 11.6.2, 11.6.3, 11.6.3.1, 11.6.3.2, 11.6.3.3, 11.6.3.4, 11.6.4, 11.6.5, 11.6.5.1, 11.6.5.2, 11.6.5.3, 12.0.0, 12.0.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.0.0 HF2, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.0.0 HF3, 12.0.0 HF4, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2, 12.1.2 HF1, 12.1.2 HF2
Fixed In:
12.1.0
Opened: Dec 31, 2013 Severity: 5-Cosmetic
Hardware syn cookies are not supported on non-HSB platforms such as 4200/2200 platforms. However, both CLI and GUI have options to enable this option. Enabling this option has no effect on unsupported platforms.
Enabling this option has no effect on unsupported platforms.
This occurs on non-HSB platforms when using hardware syn cookies.
Although there is no workaround, this is a cosmetic issue. The system internally detects whether a platform supports hardware syn cookies and ignores the setting on unsupported platforms.
The system now displays Hardware SYN Cookie Protection only on the platforms that support it.