Last Modified: Apr 10, 2019
Affected Product:
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BIG-IP All
Known Affected Versions:
12.1.0
Fixed In:
13.0.0, 12.1.0 HF1
Opened: May 11, 2016
Severity: 3-Major
TCP connections stall or get dropped.
This usually happens with rateshaper or BWC enabled. Rarely could also happen with very lossy networks.
Under some network conditions especially with rateshaper enabled TCP connection could stall and ultimately get reset.
None
Properly manage re-transmissions after a tail drop by not not doing the exponential back-off. Reset the re-transmit timer for every partial ack received after a tail drop.