Bug ID 1216097: LACP state flapped repeatedly during the upgrade

Last Modified: Aug 01, 2024

Affected Product(s):
F5OS F5OS(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
F5OS-A 1.3.0, F5OS-A 1.3.1, F5OS-A 1.3.2

Fixed In:
F5OS-A 1.7.0

Opened: Jan 04, 2023

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

LACPD status flapped during upgrade. It is triggered by a transition in lacpd state machine, but no way to concretely tell why with current data in QKView. Mux machine is triggering multiple transitions with delays in due ZMQ poll errors and multiple restarts during upgrades.

Impact

LACP recovered after repeated flapping.

Conditions

1) clean install with F5OS-A 1.2.0, 2) configure the LACP 3) Live upgraded to F5OS-A 1.3.0. LACP state flapped for 2 min during the upgrade to F5OS-A 1.3.0. This involved repeated reboots due to bios/firmware upgrade.

Workaround

The scope of this bug is to review lacpd implementation and fix/improve if there are any potential areas that can lead to the observed issue at the peer. Hence, improved the logging from lacpd for a better understanding of the system at run time.

Fix Information

Improved the logging from lacpd for a better understanding of the system at run time.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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