Bug ID 436825: Upgrade of partition with default route domain will move nodes from route domain 0 to the default

Last Modified: Jul 12, 2023

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP Install/Upgrade, LTM(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
11.3.0, 11.2.1, 11.2.0

Opened: Nov 06, 2013

Severity: 4-Minor

Related Article: K14876

Symptoms

Under certain conditions, nodes (or any other object with an IP address) in a partition that belong to route domain 0 will be treated as part of the default route domain for the partition after an upgrade.

Impact

Those objects might no longer be addressable or able to connect.

Conditions

All of these conditions must be true: - A system is being upgraded from any TMOS v10.x release to any TMOS v11.x release after 11.1 or any TMOS v12.x release. Upgrading to 11.0.0 or 11.1.0 is not affected, but the upgrade process resets the partition's default-route-domain setting to 0. - It has a partition that has its default route domain set to a nonzero route domain. - That partition contains nodes with no route domain set (so the default is used). - That partition contains other nodes in route domain 0.

Workaround

Set the partition's default route domain ID to 0 before upgrading, then set it back to its previous value after the upgrade. This field is only used by the GUI and shell, so temporarily changing it to 0 will have no effect on the dataplane.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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