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K1974_98730
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May 10, 2018
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Devices are not synchronizing configuration to each other

Hi folks,   I´m new on Big IP and started my studies on LTM. I´ve set up two VEs running 13.1.0.5 software and I´m facing some issues in regards of synchronization of the configuration. I tried to...
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  • Krystian_Baniak's avatar
    Krystian_Baniak
    Apr 09, 2019

    I have also run into this caveat. I am running 13.1.1.4 on VMware Workstation 15 on Fedora 29 Linux kernel 5.0.4

     

    Thanks to the help of F5 FSE, I have managed to resolve it by adding the following DB variables on each VM on WMware Workstation 15.x:

     

    tmsh modify /sys db tm.tcplargereceiveoffload value disable

     

    tmsh modify /sys db tm.tcpsegmentationoffload value disable

     

     

    It appears that WMware loses packets when offload is enabled.

     

Krystian_Baniak's avatar
Krystian_Baniak
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Apr 09, 2019

I have also run into this caveat. I am running 13.1.1.4 on VMware Workstation 15 on Fedora 29 Linux kernel 5.0.4

 

Thanks to the help of F5 FSE, I have managed to resolve it by adding the following DB variables on each VM on WMware Workstation 15.x:

 

tmsh modify /sys db tm.tcplargereceiveoffload value disable

 

tmsh modify /sys db tm.tcpsegmentationoffload value disable

 

 

It appears that WMware loses packets when offload is enabled.

 

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mr_gchintal
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Jun 09, 2021

Thank you so much!