Bug ID 574880

Bug ID 574880: Excessive failures observed when connection rate limit is configured on a fastl4 virtual server.

Last Modified: Nov 07, 2022

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

Known Affected Versions:
12.1.0, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.1.1, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2

Fixed In:
13.0.0, 12.1.2

Opened: Feb 19, 2016

Severity: 2-Critical

When connection rate limit is set on a fastL4 virtual server, client connections hang with high probability.

Client connections hang with high probability.

Set Connection Rate Limit on a fastL4 virtual server.

Do rate limiting using iRules. https://devcentral.f5.com/articles/iruleology-table-based-rate-limiting

Fixed Connection Rate Limiting on a fastL4 virtual server.