Last Modified: Oct 16, 2023
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP LTM
Known Affected Versions:
11.3.0, 11.4.0, 11.4.1, 11.5.0, 11.5.1
Fixed In:
11.6.0, 11.5.2, 11.4.1 HF6
Opened: Feb 11, 2014 Severity: 3-Major Related Article:
K16017
When a LSN Pool is configured in deterministic mode, each subscriber gets a predetermined set of translation endpoints that are used for source address translation. When a translation request is processed for a new connection the first endpoints in the set are used very heavily and other endpoints are used rarely.
Poor utilization of available translation ports and very high levels of port reuse. In the case of TCP connections this port reuse can cause servers to reject connections because a previous connection is in the TIME_WAIT state.
LSN pool in deterministic mode, Virtual Server using the fastL4 profile.
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The endpoint is chosen based on the client's source port. This leads to better port selection behavior.