Bug ID 997929: Changing a Traffic Matching Criteria port from 'any' to another value can prevent a virtual server from processing traffic

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
14.1.0, 14.1.0.1, 14.1.0.2, 14.1.0.3, 14.1.0.5, 14.1.0.6, 14.1.2, 14.1.2.1, 14.1.2.2, 14.1.2.3, 14.1.2.4, 14.1.2.5, 14.1.2.6, 14.1.2.7, 14.1.2.8, 14.1.3, 14.1.3.1, 14.1.4, 14.1.4.1, 14.1.4.2, 14.1.4.3, 15.0.0, 15.0.1, 15.0.1.1, 15.0.1.2, 15.0.1.3, 15.0.1.4, 15.1.0, 15.1.0.1, 15.1.0.2, 15.1.0.3, 15.1.0.4, 15.1.0.5, 15.1.1, 15.1.2, 15.1.2.1, 15.1.3, 15.1.3.1, 16.0.0, 16.0.0.1, 16.0.1, 16.0.1.1

Fixed In:
16.1.0, 16.0.1.2, 15.1.4, 14.1.4.4

Opened: Feb 26, 2021

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

If a virtual server is using a traffic-matching-criteria (TMC) with a destination-inline-port of zero ('any'), and this is later changed (either to a non-zero port value, or to a port-list with non-zero port values) the virtual server stops processing traffic. If tmm is restarted (which causes an outage) the virtual server resumes accepting traffic using the new ports. In addition, changing the virtual server's port back to 'any' also causes traffic processing to resume.

Impact

The virtual server stops processing traffic.

Conditions

-- A virtual server using an address list for its destination, and 'any' (zero) for its destination port. -- Changing the virtual server's destination port to a non-zero value, or to a port-list with non-zero port values.

Workaround

To recover, you can do either of the following: -- Restart tmm: bigstart restart tmm -- Change the virtual server's port back to 'any' (0).

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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