Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP APM
Known Affected Versions:
11.6.1, 12.1.2, 12.1.3, 12.1.3.1
Fixed In:
13.1.0, 12.1.3.2, 11.6.2
Opened: Mar 08, 2017 Severity: 3-Major
The system converts the server provided packet into PPP buffers. These PPP packets are used to pack into DTLS records. Currently there is a limit of about 14 KB of DTLS records, such that the system can pack multiple PPP records into one DTLS record. However, creating bigger DTLS record can cause server IP Fragmentation. In the lossy environment, losing one IP fragment can cause the complete DTLS record to be lost, resulting in poor performance.
In networks with packet losses, the APM end-user application might suffer poor network performance.
Multiple UDP/TCP packets packed into one DTLS Record.
None.
DTLS performance has been improved in lossy or high latency networks by optimizing the number of encoded ppp records inside of DTLS records.