Bug ID 677400: pimd daemon may exit on failover

Last Modified: Jul 18, 2026

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

Known Affected Versions:
12.0.0, 12.0.0 hf1, 12.0.0 hf2, 12.0.0 hf3, 12.0.0 hf4, 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, 13.0.0, 13.0.0 hf1, 13.0.0 hf2, 13.0.0 hf3, 13.0.1

Fixed In:
13.1.0, 12.1.3.4

Opened: Aug 08, 2017

Severity: 3-Major

Related Article: K82502883

Symptoms

When multicast traffic is passing on a high availability (HA) pair, the pimd daemon on the unit that transitions to standby may exit and drop a core file.

Impact

None. The system that goes active will reconverge, and multicast traffic will resume.

Conditions

-- Multicast routing configured. -- PIM-Sparse Mode configured. -- HA failover configuration.

Workaround

No workaround required.

Fix Information

The pimd daemon no longer exits when an HA failover occurs.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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