Bug ID 1695977: BGP is unsupported in High Availability (HA) Mode on VELOS

Last Modified: Oct 19, 2025

Affected Product(s):
BIG_IP_NEXT(VE/HW) TMOS(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
20.3.0

Opened: Oct 13, 2024

Severity: 2-Critical

Symptoms

BGP connections will not be formed and routes will not be shared with BGP peers.

Impact

Traffic will fail to reach the intended applications because BGP routes from the BIG-IP Next instance will not be advertised to BGP peers.

Conditions

A pair of BIG-IP Next instances running on a VELOS chassis in High Availability (HA) mode will not send BGP peer requests to BGP neighbors. This issue occurs after HA pairs are established on both active and standby instances.

Workaround

None

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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