Bug ID 579210: VIPRION B4400N blades might fail to go Active under rare conditions.

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
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, 12.1.2, 13.0.0, 13.0.0 HF1, 13.0.0 HF2, 13.0.0 HF3, 13.0.1

Fixed In:
13.1.0, 12.1.3

Opened: Mar 09, 2016

Severity: 2-Critical

Related Article: K11418051

Symptoms

Over extended periods of booting and rebooting a VIPRION system containing B4400N blades, a switch port connected to the HSB might fail to initialize properly. In some cases, logs indicate an occurrence of the problem in the following form: hgm_fcs_errs[higig mac #] exceeds 1000.

Impact

When the problem is manifest, the HSB receives FCS errors at a high-frequency and does not receive any valid traffic from the port switch. The B4400N blade might be unable to go active and join the cluster.

Conditions

This happens under very rare conditions on B4400N blades; for example, after approximately 8-12 hours of continuous rebooting.

Workaround

To recover, reboot the system once.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

K10134038: F5 Bug Tracker Filter Names and Tips