Bug ID 1408369: The "MAC exhaustion" error message during tenant creation may be caused by configuration processed during startup initialization

Last Modified: Jan 30, 2025

Affected Product(s):
F5OS Install/Upgrade, Velos(all modules)

Fixed In:
F5OS-C 1.8.0

Opened: Nov 30, 2023

Severity: 2-Critical

Symptoms

If tenant configuration is processed before startup initialization has completed then there may be a MAC exhaustion error issued.

Impact

The tenant configuration fails.

Conditions

If startup initialization has not completed then the available MAC addresses are not known and a MAC exhaustion error is issued.

Workaround

Reconfigure the tenant once startup has completed.

Fix Information

The configuration code is now gated to not run until startup initialization has completed.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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