Sync of TCP connection table

We have tcp connections only, no http traffic. Problem is that our HA F5 pair is running in production and i don't want to reboot them if not necessary. Our test system only has a single F5 so i cannot test this behaviour there.

Next plan is to update to 12.1. And check if its working then.

Thanks for your help

You need to make sure connection mirroring is checked on the virtual server and the VS is part of the active floating traffic group. It depends on your requirements, but typically http traffic shouldn't need connection mirroring enabled.

Otherwise if that is all good, it is interesting that the active f5 does not share all active connections, just the new ones. f5 documentation says that connection updates should be sent to the standby unit with every packet or flow state update.

Could you test with a telnet session and show us the connection present and then missing on the standby unit?

First I recommend you upgrade to 11.5.4 Hf2 which is the minimum F5 code you should be running. I know some are running 11.6 but strategically you should aim to get onto 12.1 at some point.

Do you have connection mirroring checked off on the Virtual server? which type of protocol are you expecting to be mirrored? you should be able to execute a connection and run tmsh show sys connection on both units to ensure the session is mirrored. There might be some older connection mirroring bugs so i would try it out with 11.5.4 running