Mar 27, 2026 - For details about updated CVE-2025-53521 (BIG-IP APM vulnerability), refer to K000156741.

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Ed_Summers
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Jan 23, 2014

LTM SNAT TCP timeout = "indefinite"

Ran into an issue of port exhaustion for one server in a SNAT. While researching I found SOL7606 which states: "Note: When set to Indefinite, UDP or IP SNAT translation idle time-outs are intern...
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Jan 24, 2014

Hopefully that setting has been fixed. I remember years ago running 9.4 code we found out indefinite did not mean indefinite and it was really 5 minutes. We had to manually set a very high value, like 14,400 I think. We had to meet with our CIO every day for 2 weeks to discuss application disconnects until we discovered that.