Bug ID 1289981: Tenants on r2000 and r4000 systems will not pass traffic through VLAN groups, or if ltm global-settings general share-single-mac changed from "vmw-compat"

Last Modified: Jul 04, 2024

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

Known Affected Versions:
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, 17.1.0, 17.1.0.1, 17.1.0.2, 17.1.0.3

Fixed In:
17.1.1

Opened: Apr 18, 2023

Severity: 1-Blocking

Symptoms

A tenant running on an r2000 or r4000-series appliance is not able to pass traffic through a VLAN group, regardless of the VLAN group mode. Traffic to/from the tenant does not work properly if the "ltm global-settings general share-single-mac" / "VLAN.MacAssignment" DB key is changed to "unique".

Impact

Traffic to tenant stops working and all the traffic to tenant is dropped.

Conditions

- r2000 and r4000-series appliances - tenant using VLAN groups, or with the share-single-mac setting changed from the default ("vmw-compat") to "unique".

Workaround

None

Fix Information

Unicast promiscuous mode is set in the guest OS iavf driver during the initialization.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

K10134038: F5 Bug Tracker Filter Names and Tips