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jtinouye_179894
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Dec 11, 2014

malformed packet warning due to packet size

Hello,

 

I have a customer system that is a virtual F5 device. They are getting a strange error where it looks like the inside IP of the device is trying to connect to itself, and then they are getting a malformed packet warning in the log.

 

Could this be due to TCP re-transmit issues? Why would the device be trying to connect to itself?

 

Thanks! Jeff

 

application delivery
cloud
LTM
TMOS
vmware

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    jtinouye_179894
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    Dec 11, 2014
    it basically looks like this: [2014-12-11 09:37:26,080] INFO [6] OnIncomingDeviceConnect_or_Detect(): New device @ IP:(x.x.x.x) detected\connected [12/11/2014 9:37:26 AM] 80 [2014-12-11 09:37:26,080] INFO [6] OnIncomingDeviceConnect_or_Detect(): New device @ IP:(x.x.x.x) detected\connected. [2014-12-11 09:37:26,080] WARN [16] Malformed packet: Packet size: 19 != Expected size: -1 Raw Packet Bytes (hex) x.x.x.x = internal ip of ltm