Bug ID 428718: VIPRION SPR PIC firmware version 3.00 update

Last Modified: Jul 12, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
10.2.4, 11.2.1, 11.4.1

Fixed In:
11.5.0, 11.2.1 HF15, 10.2.4 HF13

Opened: Aug 23, 2013

Severity: 2-Critical

Symptoms

1. Chassis backplane CAN bus traffic is filtered to minimize unnecessary traffic processing on devices, which improves reliability of chassis firmware updates and serial console redirection between blades (ID411726). 2. More efficient buffering and packet sizing is used for redirected serial console output (ID411724). 3. Using the AOM menu to power-on a blade which is already powered on will cause the blade to reboot (ID419637).

Impact

1. Chassis firmware updates may fail, preventing the cluster from going on-line (ID408950). Redirected serial console output may appear incorrect. 2. Chassis firmware updates may fail, preventing the cluster from going on-line (ID408950). Redirected serial console output may appear incorrect. 3. Selecting a blade to power on/off via the AOM menu, then selecting to turn the blade on will cause the blade to reboot. There is no safe choice if the blade was selected by mistake.

Conditions

Affects VIPRION B4100 (PB100), B4200 (PB200), and B4300 series blades.

Workaround

None

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

K10134038: F5 Bug Tracker Filter Names and Tips