Bug ID 709670: iRule triggered from RADIUS occasionally fails to create subscribers.

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
12.1.4, 12.1.4.1, 13.0.0, 13.0.0 HF1, 13.0.0 HF2, 13.0.0 HF3, 13.0.1, 13.1.0, 13.1.0.1, 13.1.0.2, 13.1.0.3, 13.1.0.4, 13.1.0.5, 13.1.0.6, 13.1.0.7, 13.1.0.8, 13.1.1, 14.0.0, 14.0.0.1, 14.0.0.2, 14.0.0.3, 14.0.0.4

Fixed In:
14.1.0, 14.0.0.5, 13.1.1.2, 12.1.5

Opened: Mar 11, 2018

Severity: 3-Major

Related Article: K44067891

Symptoms

The subscriber can not be added with the same IP address after retries. This is a rarely occurring issue: if the daily average of subscriber additions is ~30000 subscribers, 5 to 6 subscribers face this problem (0.02%).

Impact

Intermittently (a few operations per day), the command silently fails. No session is created, and no TCL error is produced. Subscriber addition requires manual intervention.

Conditions

Running iRule to create PEM sessions from RADIUS packets using the 'PEM::subscriber create' command.

Workaround

Trigger a RADIUS START using a different IP address for the subscriber.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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