Bug ID 583111: BGP activated for IPv4 address family even when 'no bgp default ipv4-unicast' is configured

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.6.0, 11.6.1, 11.6.2, 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, 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, 12.1.3, 12.1.3.1, 12.1.3.2, 12.1.3.3

Fixed In:
13.0.0, 12.1.3.4

Opened: Mar 25, 2016

Severity: 2-Critical

Symptoms

When BGP is configured with 'no bgp default ipv4-unicast,' configuring a peer-group with IPv6 members adds 'neighbor <neighbor> activate' for the IPv6 neighbors under address-family ipv4.

Impact

Despite disabling IPv4 unicast for BGP by default, neighbors in the peer group have the IPv4 unicast address family enabled.

Conditions

This occurs when the following conditions are met: -- 'no bgp default ipv4-unicast' is configured in imish. -- 'neighbor <neighbor> peer-group <peergroup>' is configured.

Workaround

Delete the line in the configuration that was automatically added in imish in the 'router bgp' section: no neighbor <neighbor> activate

Fix Information

Configuring IPv6 members of a peer-group when 'no bgp default ipv4-unicast' no longer automatically enables IPv4 unicast for the peer-group members.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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