Bug ID 1582593: F5OS tenant may not pass FastL4 accelerated traffic through VLAN group

Last Modified: Sep 27, 2024

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP F5OS, TMOS(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
15.1.4, 15.1.4.1, 15.1.5, 15.1.5.1, 15.1.6, 15.1.6.1, 15.1.7, 15.1.8, 15.1.8.1, 15.1.8.2, 15.1.9, 15.1.9.1, 15.1.10, 15.1.10.2, 15.1.10.3, 15.1.10.4, 15.1.10.5, 17.1.0, 17.1.0.1, 17.1.0.2, 17.1.0.3, 17.1.1, 17.1.1.1, 17.1.1.2, 17.1.1.3, 17.1.1.4

Opened: Apr 27, 2024

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

When a connection of a virtual server where either the client- or server-side flow is connected via a VLAN Group is offloaded, the flow-cache entry will contain VLAN ID 0 for the corresponding flow(s). VLAN ID 0 is invalid and packets hitting the flow-cache entry are dropped by the hardware.

Impact

Service degradation of the affected virtual server.

Conditions

-- F5OS platform. -- FastL4 virtual. -- Either side of the flow is connected via a VLAN Group.

Workaround

Disable PVA offload in the fastl4 profile.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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