Bug ID 815825: BIG-IP may not create a listener object after TMM restarts or the system reboots

Last Modified: Oct 16, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
13.1.1.4, 13.1.1.5, 13.1.3, 13.1.3.1, 13.1.3.2, 13.1.3.3, 13.1.3.4, 13.1.3.5, 13.1.3.6, 13.1.4, 13.1.4.1, 13.1.5, 13.1.5.1, 14.0.0, 14.0.0.1, 14.0.0.2, 14.0.0.3, 14.0.0.4, 14.0.0.5, 14.0.1, 14.0.1.1

Opened: Aug 19, 2019

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

After a reboot or TMM restart, system may fail to create a listener object for configured virtual servers. Depending on the configuration: -- The BIG-IP system may stop responding to ARP requests for configured virtual servers. -- The BIG-IP system may reject traffic for configured virtual servers with [F5RST: No local listener], or drop it silently if tm.rejectunmatched is set to false.

Impact

Unable to establish connections to the affected virtual server.

Conditions

-- LTM policy with external datagroup configured on virtual server. -- Reboot or TMM restart.

Workaround

Delete and re-add the affected virtual-server.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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