Bug ID 589039: Clearing masquerade MAC results in unexpected link-local self IP addresses.

Last Modified: Oct 16, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
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, 11.6.0, 11.6.1, 11.6.2, 11.6.3, 11.6.3.1, 11.6.3.2, 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, 12.1.3.4, 12.1.3.5, 12.1.3.6, 12.1.3.7, 12.1.4, 12.1.4.1, 12.1.5, 12.1.5.1, 12.1.5.2, 12.1.5.3, 12.1.6

Fixed In:
13.0.0, 11.6.3.3, 11.5.7

Opened: Apr 21, 2016

Severity: 4-Minor

Symptoms

The BIG-IP system advertises fe80::200:ff:fe00:0 as a self IP address.

Impact

This might cause IP address conflicts between devices in a high availability (HA) configuration.

Conditions

Masquerade MAC changes from non-zero to zero.

Workaround

Restart tmm after setting masquerade MAC to zero.

Fix Information

The system does not advertise invalid self IP addresses on clearing masquerade MAC.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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