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Bob_Vance_75936's avatar
Bob_Vance_75936
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Apr 22, 2011

INET port exhaustion and ip forwarding VIP

Hello,     Every now and then we will have an issue with inet port exhaustion being logged for DNS traffic passing thru the LTM using the ip forwarding VIP:       local/tmm crit tmm[9177...
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Joel_Moses's avatar
Joel_Moses
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Apr 29, 2011
Hoolio: Do you think "srcport preserve strict" might help here? Sounds like the LTM thinks that (for some reason) the source port is already being used in error; i think "strict" will force it to not translate, period, whereas "srcport preserve" does it only if it's not tracking anything it thinks is conflicting.