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funkdaddy_31014
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Jun 30, 2011

Define: inet port exhaustion?

During various load tests within our environment, I'm seeing the following errors in our logs:     p-bigip1 local/tmm crit tmm[5406]: 01010201:2: Inet port exhaustion on 199.83.xx.xx to 10.2.1.1...
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hooleylist
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Jun 30, 2011
There's a SOL on AskF5 about this:

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/7000/800/sol7820.html?sr=15280517exhaustion

 

 

The simple fix is to add more addresses to the SNAT pool and/or create a unique SNAT pool per LB pool. If you need to ensure the same client is SNAT'd to the same SNAT address over connections you can use an iRule:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/snat_pool_persistence.html

 

 

Aaron