Bug ID 695090: In rare situations hardware syncookies may be sent for a L7 virtual server when hardware syncookie protection is disabled

Last Modified: Oct 03, 2023

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP LTM(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: Nov 17, 2017

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

In rare situations, hardware syncookies may be sent for the traffic received on a L7 virtual server even though hardware syncookie protection is disabled on the virtual server.

Impact

Some of the TCP options are not supported under hardware syncookie protection mode.

Conditions

It is unknown what triggers this error condition at this point.

Workaround

There is no workaround at this time.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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