Bug ID 846217: Translucent vlan-groups set local bit in destination MAC address

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
14.1.2.1, 14.1.2.2, 14.1.2.3, 14.1.2.4, 14.1.2.5, 14.1.2.6, 14.1.2.7, 14.1.2.8, 14.1.3, 14.1.3.1, 14.1.4, 14.1.4.1, 14.1.4.2, 14.1.4.3, 15.0.0, 15.0.1, 15.0.1.1, 15.0.1.2, 15.0.1.3, 15.0.1.4, 15.1.0, 15.1.0.1, 15.1.0.2, 15.1.0.3, 15.1.0.4, 15.1.0.5, 15.1.1, 15.1.2

Fixed In:
16.0.0, 15.1.2.1, 14.1.4.4

Opened: Nov 05, 2019

Severity: 2-Critical

Symptoms

Translucent vlan-groups may set the locally-unique bit in a destination MAC address when sending traffic to a pool member/client.

Impact

Traffic handled by translucent vlan-groups may not work properly.

Conditions

On versions earlier than 15.0.0: - Translucent vlan-group is in use. On v15.0.0 and later: -- Translucent vlan-group is in use. -- The connection.vgl2transparent db variable is enabled.

Workaround

On versions earlier than 15.0.0, there is no workaround. -- On version 15.0.0 and later, you can disable the connection.vgl2transparent db variable to mitigate the problem: tmsh modify sys db connection.vgl2transparent value disable Note: connection.vgl2transparent is disabled by default.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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