Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP LTM
Known Affected Versions:
11.5.1 HF1, 11.5.1 HF2, 11.5.1 HF3, 11.5.1 HF4, 11.5.1 HF5, 11.5.1 HF6, 11.5.1 HF7, 11.5.1 HF8, 11.5.1 HF9, 11.5.1 HF10, 11.5.1 HF11, 11.5.2 HF1, 11.5.3 HF1, 11.5.3 HF2, 11.5.4 HF1, 11.4.1, 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, 11.6.1 HF1, 11.5.4 HF2
Opened: Sep 07, 2015 Severity: 3-Major Related Article:
K83161025
A BIG-IP UDP virtual server may not send an ICMP Destination Unreachable message Code 3 (port unreachable). As a result of this issue, you may encounter the following symptoms: -- Client applications may not respond or appear to hang. -- When attempting to troubleshoot the connectivity issue from remote devices, no ICMP diagnostic data is available from the BIG-IP system.
In versions 11.3.0 through 11.4.1, the system silently drops the request. In versions 11.5.0 and later, the system sends back the ICMP message with type 13 ('administratively filtered').
This issue occurs when the following condition is met: All pool members for the UDP virtual server are unavailable.
None.
LTM now sends back an ICMP Destination Unreachable message Code 3 (port unreachable), which is expected behavior.
In version 11.2.1 and earlier, the system responded to a request with an ICMP packet containing the type code 'port unreach' when a UDP virtual server pool member was down due to no available pool members. For the same scenario in versions 11.3.0 through 11.4.1, the system sends no ICMP packet. In versions 11.5.0 through this hotfix/release, the system sends an ICMP packet containing the 'administratively filtered' type code for the same scenario. In this hotfix/release, the 11.2.1 behavior is restored. In this case, the system responds with an ICMP packet containing the type code set to 'port unreach'.