Bug ID 575176: Syn Cookie cache statistics on ePVA enabled devices is incremented with UDP traffic

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.5.0, 11.5.1, 11.5.2, 11.5.3, 11.5.4, 11.5.5, 11.5.6, 11.5.7, 11.5.8, 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, 12.1.0, 12.1.1

Fixed In:
13.0.0, 12.1.2, 11.5.9

Opened: Feb 22, 2016

Severity: 3-Major

Related Article: K58275035

Symptoms

In some scenarios UDP traffic can cause syncookie statistics to be incremented.

Impact

Statistics might be incorrectly incremented, and can lead to early syncookie activation if used in conjunction with TCP on the same virtual server.

Conditions

Virtual server with fastL4 profile with ePVA offload enabled. Virtual server to handle UDP traffic.

Workaround

None

Fix Information

The BIG-IP system no longer increases Syn Cookie cache statistics on ePVA enabled devices with UDP traffic.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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