Bug ID 594075: Sometimes when modifying the firewall rules, the blob does not compile and pccd restarts periodically

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
12.1.0, 12.1.1

Fixed In:
13.0.0, 12.1.2

Opened: May 18, 2016

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

With pccd.alwaysfromscratch set to true, the blob doesn't compile and pccd restarts periodically when firewall rules are modified.

Impact

The blob doesn't compile and pccd keeps restarting without loading new rules.

Conditions

1. pccd.alwaysfromscratch is set to true (default value is false) 2. Modify some firewall rules.

Workaround

Remove saved blob files in /var/pktclass/ (rm -f /var/pktclass/*) and restart pccd.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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