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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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hoolio
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Apr 29, 2011
Is it a problem if the source port gets translated? If so, I think reducing the idle timeout (to immediate?) for UDP would alleviate the port reuse. Regardless it would make sense to really trim down the idle timeout for DNS traffic.

 

 

Aaron