Bug ID 521144: Network failover packets on the management interface sometimes have an incorrect source-IP

Last Modified: Apr 28, 2025

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.2.1, 11.4.1, 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, 11.5.2, 11.5.2 HF1, 11.5.3, 11.5.3 HF1, 11.5.3 HF2, 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

Fixed In:
12.0.0, 11.6.1, 11.5.4, 11.4.1 HF10

Opened: May 02, 2015

Severity: 3-Major

Related Article: K16799

Symptoms

After reboot, network failover packets might be transmitted with an internal source address, on the 127/8 network.

Impact

If there are intervening firewalls or routers that drop packets with improper/unroutable source addresses, then the members of the device group cannot communicate on this channel.

Conditions

This problem might occur if the members of a device service clustering (DSC)/high availability (HA) device group have management ports on different IP networks, so that a management-route is necessary for them to communicate.

Workaround

Remove the management-route from tmsh, and add a static route to the Linux kernel routing table. For example: # tmsh delete sys management-route 10.208.101.0/24 # tmsh save sys config # echo "10.208.101.0/24 via 10.208.102.254 dev eth0" > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-eth0 # reboot

Fix Information

Network failover packets on the management interface now have the correct source-IP when device service clustering (DSC)/high availability (HA) device group have management ports on different IP networks, so that a management-route is necessary for them to communicate.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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