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f5beginner
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Jun 23, 2019

Exceed bandwidth utilization on standby device

Hello All, I have two virtual F5 in HA, one of them Active and second one is in standby mode. From my monitoring I received ping delay, which is around 400ms, so I checked logs on F5.   On acti...
  • Dario_Garrido's avatar
    Dario_Garrido
    Jun 25, 2019

    Yes, the problem you are facing is because of this UDP 8116 traffic. There are 360 packets (of 500) related to this flow.

    # cat output.txt | grep 8116 | wc -l
360

    This is not a specific problem of F5, so you should check your enviroment to figure out what the source of traffic is and how to stop it.

    BTW, I would appreciate if you mark my answer as 'the best' or give me some upvote :-).

    KR,

    Dario.

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Dario_Garrido
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The message is for you license throughput limit ->

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K14810

 

I suspect that you have configure mirroring, which generates a bunch of traffic.

 

Here there is some config recommendations for your network resources ->

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K14135

 

KR,

Dario.

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Dario_Garrido
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Jun 23, 2019

BTW, In case you don't have any mirroring options configured in your device. I recommend you to reboot this box (standby).