Last Modified: Apr 28, 2025
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP LTM
Known Affected Versions:
12.1.0, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.1.1, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2, 12.1.2, 12.1.2 HF1, 12.1.2 HF2, 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
Opened: Jul 08, 2016 Severity: 3-Major
Floating tunnels with names more than 15 characters may cause issues in config-sync, because such a long name is truncated when creating a corresponding Linux tunnel interface.
When the config-sync happens, the following error may occur: Caught configuration exception (0), Cannot create tunnel 'g123456789abc~1' in rd0 - ioctl failed: File exists.
The BIG-IP system consists of both floating and non-floating tunnels and their names are longer than 15 characters.
Some workarounds are available: - Make sure that tunnel names are less than 16 characters; or - Make sure that the names of floating and non-floating tunnels do not share a common prefix in the first 15 characters; or - Make sure that the BIG-IP system does not have a mixture of floating and non-floating tunnels.
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