Bug ID 1327749: Deleting tenants may not release MAC address allocations

Last Modified: May 29, 2024

Affected Product(s):
F5OS None(all modules)

Opened: Aug 04, 2023

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

In a partition, it is possible to see allocated MAC addresses that have not been freed back to the pool.

Impact

MAC addresses may not be available for tenant creation.

Conditions

When the number of deployed tenants on a chassis has exhausted resources, it is possible that when all tenants are removed, the allocated MAC addresses are not freed back to the free pool.

Workaround

A failover of the partition recovers the MAC addresses; they are returned to the free pool.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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