Bug ID 1325045: Nexthop of mirrored flow is not updated when standby becomes active

Last Modified: Oct 04, 2024

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP LTM(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
16.1.2, 16.1.2.1, 16.1.2.2, 16.1.3, 16.1.3.1, 16.1.3.2, 16.1.3.3, 16.1.3.4, 16.1.3.5, 16.1.4, 16.1.4.1, 16.1.4.2, 16.1.4.3, 16.1.5, 16.1.5.1

Opened: Jul 25, 2023

Severity: 4-Minor

Symptoms

After failover, newly active BIG-IP does not refresh the server nexthop value when a routing change occurs. This is an intermittent issue.

Impact

Connection failure until the flow entry is deleted.

Conditions

BIG-IP in high availability (HA) scenario with connection mirroring. A network failure triggers a failover and also stops the newly active from reaching the server nexthop. A routing change (eg: bgp peering timeout) occurs which should trigger a recalculation of the server nexthop mac-address.

Workaround

Clear the connflow entry from the table. Remove connection mirroring. Reconfigure network so that active and standby have equal access to the network in the event of failure. Use VRRP/HSRP or similar on the downstream network.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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