Bug ID 1590253: New Alarms Introduced for Chassis-Wide MAC Pool Issues

Last Modified: Jul 15, 2026

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

Fixed In:
F5OS v2.0.0

Opened: May 29, 2024

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

When there are chassis-wide MAC pool issues, e.g., a partition using MACs the controller did not know about, the user has little data to identify the issues, except for show system mac-allocation and show system chassis-macs. See 1576241 for details

Impact

Lack of new means of detecting the MAC issues prolongs the finding of the problems. See 1576241 for details

Conditions

Various chassis-wide MAC pool issues include partitions using the same MAC, controller partition MACs being the actual partition MAC pools, etc. See 1576241 for details

Workaround

Since this is an improvement bug, there is no mitigation

Fix Information

This improvement would allow users to collect more data that facilitates detecting and troubleshooting MAC issues

Behavior Change

Guides & references

K10134038: F5 Bug Tracker Filter Names and Tips