Bug ID 941593: Video Traffic Management - ECN detection

Last Modified: Jul 12, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
16.0.0, 16.0.0.1, 16.0.1, 16.0.1.1, 16.0.1.2

Fixed In:
16.1.0

Opened: Sep 01, 2020

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

When congestion is experienced in the network, all end user client traffic is affected, including video traffic. Enabling Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) and setting the flow value ECN bits to 3 in the IP header helps to manage the congestion.

Impact

Congestion in the network is unresolved.

Conditions

-- Congestion is experienced in the network -- Video traffic is affected.

Workaround

None

Fix Information

With this feature enabled and if the flow value has ECN bits set to 3, the BIG-IP system applies the actions associated with the PEM Policy. In the PEM policy you can apply rate limiting to the applicable (existing video) traffic.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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