Bug ID 678009: An internal virtual server as a Service Function (SF) displays its capability as NSH unaware

Last Modified: Oct 17, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
14.0.0, 14.0.0.1, 14.0.0.2, 14.0.0.3, 14.0.0.4, 14.0.0.5, 14.0.1, 14.0.1.1, 14.1.0, 14.1.0.1, 14.1.0.2, 14.1.0.3, 14.1.0.5, 14.1.0.6, 14.1.2, 14.1.2.1, 14.1.2.2, 14.1.2.3, 14.1.2.4, 14.1.2.5, 14.1.2.6, 14.1.2.7, 14.1.2.8, 14.1.3, 14.1.3.1, 14.1.4, 14.1.4.1, 14.1.4.2, 14.1.4.3, 14.1.4.4, 14.1.4.5, 14.1.4.6, 14.1.5, 14.1.5.1, 14.1.5.2, 14.1.5.3, 14.1.5.4, 14.1.5.6, 15.0.0, 15.0.1, 15.0.1.1, 15.0.1.2, 15.0.1.3, 15.0.1.4

Opened: Aug 10, 2017

Severity: 4-Minor

Symptoms

TMSH displays an internal virtual server configured as a Service Function as 'nsh-aware disabled'.

Impact

Essentially, the BIG-IP system is always in NSH-aware mode. Custom logic outside BIG-IP-provided logic that is based on NSH awareness of a Service Function will be impacted if NSH-aware capabilities are derived from the TMSH output.

Conditions

Internal virtual server configured as a service function.

Workaround

None.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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