Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP TMOS
Known Affected Versions:
12.1.0, 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
Fixed In:
13.1.0
Opened: Jan 24, 2017 Severity: 3-Major
When BWC policy is configured with category that is configured at lower rate than max-user-rate, when the system is congested, the system might experience lower bandwidth and is not able to fill the pipe.
Lower bandwidth is seen.
BWC dynamic policy configured with category. The number of sessions created is greater than max-rate/max-user-rate, utilizing all the policies. For example: max-rate=10mbps, max user rate=5mbps, cat rate=3mbps.
Configure categories at the same rate as that of max-user-rate.
BWC: dynamic policy category now sees the same or better bandwidth.