Bug ID 491076: Client Connection Counts may be incorrect after blade failovers.

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
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, 12.1.0, 12.1.1, 12.1.2, 12.1.3, 12.1.3.1, 12.1.3.2, 12.1.3.3, 12.1.3.4, 12.1.3.5, 12.1.3.6, 12.1.3.7, 12.1.4, 12.1.4.1, 12.1.5, 12.1.5.1, 12.1.5.2, 12.1.5.3, 12.1.6

Opened: Nov 16, 2014

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

When a blade fails, any non-mirrored connections on that blade are lost. The loss of these connections are not correctly accounted for when determining LSN client connection count limits. This may cause some clients to reach their connection count limit prematurely.

Impact

Client connection count limits reached prematurely.

Conditions

Blade failure on a chassis based system. This condition is most likely to occur when default DAG is configured on LSN VLANs.

Workaround

In order to make the client connection counter accurate again an effected client must not have any active connections or make any new connections for a time greater than any connections configured timeout. (default 300 seconds). After the client connection counter entry times out, the client connection counter will accurately reflect the number of client connections.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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