Bug ID 624091: DHCP relay is not forwarding all of the DHCPOFFERS to clients

Last Modified: Apr 28, 2025

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.6.1, 11.6.1 HF1

Fixed In:
11.6.1 HF2

Opened: Oct 20, 2016

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

When upgrading from v11.5.3 to v11.6.1, DHCPOFFER packets got silently dropped.

Impact

BIG-IP will stop to relay DHCPOFFER and DHCPACK back to DHCP clients

Conditions

If DHCP clients send broadcast DHCP packets with non-zero unicast source IP address via BIG-IP, and regular DHCP discovery packets(0.0.0.0 source IP addrees), multiple client connection flows are created, after some are aged out, BIG-IP may stop relay DHCP server replies back to clients.

Workaround

Manually delete all system connection flows by doing "delete sys conn" under tmsh.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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