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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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nitass_89166
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Jun 27, 2012
pls what is the mean of port exhausion in term of DNS poisioning what are you looking for?
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Sumanta_88744
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Feb 15, 2015
Hi Experts Apart from any SNAT configuration for DNS, will the F5 throw any such errors? For example, if F5 acts in line and forwards DNS traffic in L3 forwarding mode? Sample logs given below, it does not have the SNAT IP pool. Feb 16 11:09:47 slot1/lb1 crit tmm3[11818]: 01010201:2: Inet port exhaustion on 50.185.12.146 to 171.61.183.190:53 (proto 17) Feb 16 11:09:48 slot1/lb1 crit tmm6[11818]: 01010201:2: Inet port exhaustion on 50.185.12.146 to 171.61.159.8:53 (proto 17) Feb 16 11:09:48 slot1/lb1 crit tmm8[11818]: 01010201:2: Inet port exhaustion on 50.185.12.146 to 171.61.183.190:53 (proto 17) Feb 16 11:09:48 slot1/lb1 crit tmm9[11818]: 01010201:2: Inet port exhaustion on 50.185.12.146 to 171.61.159.8:53 (proto 17) Feb 16 11:09:48 slot1/lb1 crit tmm9[11818]: 01010201:2: Inet port exhaustion on 50.185.12.146 to 171.61.159.8:53 (proto 17)