Bug ID 602381: Poor performance can occur with MPTCP

Last Modified: Oct 16, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
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

Opened: Jun 30, 2016

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

Slow transfer speeds encountered with MPTCP. It appears to be a client MPTCP bug exposed on a VMWARE ESXi client using the vmxnet3 driver.

Impact

degraded performance experienced

Conditions

MPTCP MPTCP linux client on ESXi

Workaround

None

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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