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

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Martin_Kaiser_1
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Jul 19, 2011

Running long-living tcpdumps on BigIP

Hi guys,     I'm not quite sure if this is the right forum to post the question, but I couldn't find a more suitable one...     I often need the possibility to monitor specific client conn...
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Hamish
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Jul 19, 2011
Doh! I lie!!!

tcpdump on BigIP DOES have the limit on the number of files... Use the -W count option... Making the command 

nohup tcpdump -i interface -s 2000 -w /var/tmp/mydumpfile -C size -W filecount "filter" &

(I've left out the problematic angle brackets this time... Only the ampersand is a challenge for me now 🙂

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