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pete_71470
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Feb 24, 2016

Inet port exhaustion: no virtual involved

We opened a support case because ltm logs were showing Inet port exhaustion. No virtual is involved: non-floating self-ip sending UDP syslog traffic (iRule for w3c logging from devcentral).   I f...
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Brad_Parker
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Mar 03, 2016

This could probably be easily rectified if you could assign an UDP profile with a idle timeout to imediate to HSL, but that doesn't seem feasible. Would also be great if HSL could leverage a stateless VS so this would never be an issue. I would suggest a case to be open with support and see what they say. My guess turning off cmp-hash just gives you more headroom that you could still eventually exhaust ports on as well if load increased.