Bug ID 476736: APM IPv6 Network Access connection may fail in some cases

Last Modified: Aug 19, 2026

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.5.1, 11.5.1 hf1, 11.5.1 hf2, 11.5.1 hf3, 11.5.1 hf4, 11.5.1 hf5, 11.5.1 hf6, 11.5.1 hf7, 11.5.1 hf8, 11.5.1 hf9, 11.5.1 hf10, 11.5.1 hf11, 11.6.0, 11.6.0 hf1, 11.6.0 hf2, 11.6.0 hf3, 11.6.0 hf4, 11.6.0 hf5, 11.6.0 hf6, 11.6.0 hf7, 11.6.0 hf8, 11.6.1, 11.6.1 hf1, 11.6.1 hf2, 11.6.2, 11.6.2 hf1, 11.6.3, 11.6.3.1, 11.6.3.2, 11.6.3.3, 11.6.3.4, 11.6.4, 11.6.5, 11.6.5.1, 11.6.5.2, 11.6.5.3

Fixed In:
12.0.0, 11.5.2

Opened: Aug 25, 2014

Severity: 2-Critical

Symptoms

When the client provided link local address contains zeros for first 4+ bytes, the IPv6 Network Access connection will fail due to listener bind failure.

Impact

IPv6 Network Access Tunnels may not succeed.

Conditions

When the first 4+ bytes of IPv6 Link Local address are zeros this bug will show up.

Workaround

There is no workaround for this.

Fix Information

For a certain set of IPv6 link local addresses, the IPv6 Network Access tunnel may not succeed due to listener lookup failure. This code change fixes this issue.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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