Bug ID 557675: Failover from PEM to PCRF can cause session lookup inconsistency

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.6.0, 12.0.0, 12.0.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.0.0 HF2, 12.1.0 HF2, 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

Fixed In:
12.0.0 HF3, 11.6.1

Opened: Nov 11, 2015

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

A small number of PEM sessions can be looked up only by their session-ip, but not by their subscriber-id.

Impact

Fails to find sessions needed for traffic processing.

Conditions

Using PEM, failover to PCRF.

Workaround

none

Fix Information

The code change provides an internal fixup for incorrect sessions.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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