Last Modified: Oct 21, 2025
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP Install/Upgrade, LTM
Known Affected Versions:
17.5.0, 17.5.1, 17.5.1.2, 17.5.1.3
Opened: Jun 10, 2025 Severity: 3-Major
Management connectivity is lost after licensing BIG-IP 17.5.0 on AWS. The parameter provision.managementeth was changed to non-eth0 interface during deployment with cloud-init. When the issue occurs, the mgmt bridge loses the associated interface ethX.
Management connectivity is lost to BIG-IP instance.
1. Deploy an instance on AWS. 2. Change provision.managementeth to non-eth0 device and reboot. 3. After boot up, any operation that restart tmm (i.e. licensing BIG-IP) will cause the issue.
Reboot the device twice after licensing the device. One reboot will not resolve the issue.
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