Bug ID 2047569: TMM may crash during the startup with SR-IOV Intel E810 NIC on VMWare environments

Last Modified: Oct 03, 2025

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

Known Affected Versions:
17.5.0, 17.5.1

Opened: Sep 05, 2025

Severity: 1-Blocking

Symptoms

During the TMM restart, the Intel E810 SR-IOV interface may remain in an invalid state. It will prevent the initialisation of the interface on the next TMM start, and TMM will generate the core file in this case.

Impact

TMM may crash during startup.

Conditions

BIG-IP VE is deployed on VMWare ESXi environment with E810 SR-IOV interface attached.

Workaround

To clean invalid SR-IOV interface state, a complete reboot of the BIG-IP VM or VMware hypervisor is required.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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