Bug ID 891477: No retransmission occurs on TCP flows that go through a BWC policy-enabled virtual server

Last Modified: Jul 12, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
15.1.0.1, 15.1.0, 15.0.1.1, 14.1.2.3, 14.1.2.1

Fixed In:
16.0.0, 15.1.0.5, 15.0.1.4, 14.1.2.7

Opened: Mar 20, 2020

Severity: 2-Critical

Symptoms

When a bandwidth control policy is applied on a virtual server, the BIG-IP system does not retransmit unacknowledged data segments, even when the BIG-IP system receives a duplicate ACK. Both static bandwidth control policies and dynamic bandwidth control policies can cause the problem.

Impact

The BIG-IP system does not retransmit unacknowledged data segments.

Conditions

This issue occurs when both of the following conditions are met: -- Virtual server configured with a bandwidth control policy. -- Standard type of virtual server.

Workaround

None.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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