Bug ID 566507: Wrong advertised next-hop in BGP for a traffic group in Active-Active deployment

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
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 HF1, 11.5.3 HF1, 11.5.3 HF2, 11.5.4 HF1, 11.5.4 HF2, 11.5.4 HF3, 11.5.4 HF4, 11.3.0, 11.4.0, 11.4.1, 11.5.0, 11.5.1, 11.5.2, 11.5.3, 11.5.4, 11.5.5, 11.5.6, 11.5.7, 11.5.8, 11.5.9, 11.5.10, 12.0.0, 12.0.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.0.0 HF2, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.0.0 HF3, 12.0.0 HF4, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2, 12.1.2 HF1, 12.1.2 HF2, 12.1.0, 12.1.1

Fixed In:
13.0.0, 12.1.2, 11.6.1 HF2

Opened: Jan 08, 2016

Severity: 3-Major

Related Article: K55285671

Symptoms

The advertised next-hop is a floating-IP of the active traffic-group on a peer BIG-IP system, although it should be the floating-IP of the traffic-group active on the current BIG-IP system.

Impact

An incorrect next-hop in BGP is advertised for a traffic group in Active-Active deployment. Traffic for relevant advertised routes might go to a standby device.

Conditions

-- In a BIG-IP high availability (HA) configuration. -- The HA configuration is Active-Active topology. -- There are multiple traffic-groups, in which each device is active for one traffic-group.

Workaround

Configure the floating address of a traffic group as the next-hop in its route-map.

Fix Information

The advertised next-hop in BGP is now the smallest floating-IP active on the current BIG-IP system. Note: The ZebOS routing protocol suite available for BIG-IP configurations does not support traffic groups, so this issue might still be seen in certain circumstances.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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