Last Modified: Aug 19, 2026
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP LTM
Known Affected Versions:
13.0.0, 13.0.0 hf1, 13.0.0 hf2, 13.0.0 hf3, 13.0.1
Opened: Mar 08, 2017 Severity: 3-Major
A connection failure occurs when a pool member picked by cookie persistence goes down.
Connection failure. The BIG-IP system tries to persist to the pool member that's down.
-- Configure cookie persistence. -- Make a connection to get a cookie. -- Force the pool member down. -- Make a connection with the same cookie.
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Previous behavior: The cookie is not deleted when reselecting a pool member. New behavior: The BIG-IP system removes cookie persistence for the server-side traffic when pool-member reselect fails (e.g., Connection Limit)