Bug ID 635896: BWC: High jitter for traffic passing through dynamic policy category in certain cases.

Last Modified: Apr 29, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
13.0.0, 13.0.0 HF1, 13.0.0 HF2, 13.0.0 HF3, 13.0.1, 13.1.0, 13.1.0.1, 13.1.0.2, 13.1.0.3, 13.1.0.4, 13.1.0.5, 13.1.0.6, 13.1.0.7, 13.1.0.8, 13.1.1, 13.1.1.2, 13.1.1.3, 13.1.1.4, 13.1.1.5, 13.1.3, 13.1.3.1, 13.1.3.2, 13.1.3.3, 13.1.3.4, 13.1.3.5, 13.1.3.6, 13.1.4, 13.1.4.1, 13.1.5, 13.1.5.1, 14.0.0, 14.0.0.1, 14.0.0.2, 14.0.0.3, 14.0.0.4, 14.0.0.5, 14.0.1, 14.0.1.1, 14.1.0, 14.1.0.1, 14.1.0.2, 14.1.0.3, 14.1.0.5, 14.1.0.6, 14.1.2, 14.1.2.1, 14.1.2.2, 14.1.2.3, 14.1.2.4, 14.1.2.5, 14.1.2.6, 14.1.2.7, 14.1.2.8, 14.1.3, 14.1.3.1, 14.1.4, 14.1.4.1, 14.1.4.2, 14.1.4.3, 14.1.4.4, 14.1.4.5, 14.1.4.6, 14.1.5, 14.1.5.1, 14.1.5.2, 14.1.5.3, 14.1.5.4

Opened: Dec 27, 2016

Severity: 4-Minor

Symptoms

When a dynamic policy is configured so that the max-user-rate setting of the dynamic policy is not maxed out, jitter will be high when traffic only passes through the category which is configured lower than the max-user-rate.

Impact

High jitter.

Conditions

This occurs under the following conditions: - Dynamic policy configured with category rate lower than max-user-rate. - Traffic only passes through the category and not through the instance.

Workaround

You can use any of the following workarounds: -- Pass traffic through instance along with traffic through category. -- Pass enough traffic through multiple category to max out max-user-rate. -- Configure category at 100% of max-user-rate.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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