Bug ID 640054: Selective ICMP-echo behavior is inconsistent, depending on where the virtual address is disabled

Last Modified: Oct 16, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.5.0, 11.5.1, 11.5.2, 11.5.3, 11.5.4, 11.5.5, 11.5.6, 11.5.7, 11.5.8, 11.5.9, 11.5.10, 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, 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, 13.0.0, 13.0.0 HF1, 13.0.0 HF2, 13.0.0 HF3, 13.0.1

Opened: Jan 18, 2017

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

When a virtual address is using selective ICMP-echo and the virtual address is disabled, it will sometimes respond to ICMP echo requests, and sometimes not.

Impact

The ICMP echo behavior is different depending on where the virtual address is disabled.

Conditions

The difference appears to depend on where the virtual address is disabled. 1) If the virtual address is disabled in the virtual address settings page in the GUI: [Local Traffic :: Virtual Servers : Virtual Address List :: <address>] it stops responding to pings. 2) If the virtual address is disabled on the virtual address list page in the GUI: [Local Traffic :: Virtual Servers : Virtual Address List] it responds to pings. 3) If the virtual address is disabled with TMSH: 'modify ltm virtual-address <address> enabled no' it responds to pings. In addition, on a BIG-IP Virtual Edition (VE), case #1 also responds to pings.

Workaround

None.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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