Bug ID 1188817: BIG-IP tenant on F5OS not allowed to modify VLAN tag value

Last Modified: Dec 05, 2024

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP F5OS, F5OS-A, F5OS-C, Velos(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
14.1.5, 14.1.5.1, 14.1.5.2, 14.1.5.3, 14.1.5.4, 14.1.5.6, 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, 17.1.2

Opened: Nov 11, 2022

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

When attempting to change the VLAN tag on a tenant on the F5OS platform, the tenant rejected the change with the error message "Modifying VLAN and attributes within a guest system is not supported on the deployed host system."

Impact

Unable to modify VLAN tag value in tenant to match F5OS host.

Conditions

Attempting to change the VLAN tag on a tenant on the F5OS platform.

Workaround

The only way to modify the VLAN tag value is either to delete and recreate the VLAN or manually edit bigip_base.conf and adjust the VLAN tag value. To manually edit bigip_base.conf: 1. Save the configuration ("tmsh save sys config") 2. Open /config/bigip_base.conf in a text editor (i.e. vim or nano) 3. Find the "net vlan /Common/<vlan>" stanza, and change the tag value there to the desired value. 4. Save the text file 6. Touch /service/mcpd/forceload 7. Reboot the tenant.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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