Bug ID 422237: Limitation on the length of tunnel names

Last Modified: Jul 12, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.4.0

Opened: May 30, 2013

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

If a tunnel name is longer than 15 characters, it might hit an error saying "Failed to generate unique interface name for vlan, vlangroup or tunnel".

Impact

Unable to create the tunnel.

Conditions

You encounter this when creating tunnels.

Workaround

Keep the tunnel names shorter than 16 characters.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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