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Kirit_Patel_521
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Nov 11, 2014

Inbound ftp stopped working after upgraded LTM to 11.4.1 code from 9.4.8 code .

Folks   I am in a situation where inbound ftp is not working for clients after upgrading from 9.4.8 to 11.4.1 We are using standard ftp profile. Clients when they are try to get multiple files the...
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shaggy
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Nov 11, 2014

In the virtual server configuration, try changing "source port" to "preserve strict"

 

I've seen this issue before, but unfortunately it has been long enough that I only vaguely remember a possible solution and not the reasoning behind it. F5 has some warnings for this setting - https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/11000/000/sol11003.html

 

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    Kirit_Patel_521
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    Nov 11, 2014
    We tried preserve restrict and Change also . My question if it works in 9.4.8 it should work in 11.4.1? no?
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    shaggy
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    Nov 11, 2014
    heh, that's a huge difference in code level - two major revisions, plus v9 was f5's first non-v4 release. can you list your vs, ftp profile, and tcp profile configs? is this active or passive ftp? Are you using default ftp ports on the server-side (20/21)?