Bug ID 700724: Client connection with large number of HTTP requests may cause tmm to restart

Last Modified: Jul 12, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
13.0.0, 13.0.0 HF1, 13.0.0 HF2, 13.0.0 HF3, 13.1.0, 13.1.0.1, 13.1.0.2, 13.1.0.3

Fixed In:
14.0.0, 13.1.0.4, 13.0.1

Opened: Jan 04, 2018

Severity: 2-Critical

Symptoms

tmm may restart while processing client request

Impact

Traffic will be disrupted while TMM restarts.

Conditions

- PingAccess profile is configured on the virtual server. - Client connection sends over 64k HTTP requests that result in BIG-IP's connection to the PingAccess policy server.

Workaround

Modify HTTP profile used by affected virtual to specify the limit of HTTP requests per connection "maximum requests per connection" to be less then 64k, e.g. 63000 or less.

Fix Information

Traffic will no longer be disrupted when client sends over 64k uncached requests on the same TCP connection.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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