Bug ID 707391: BGP may keep announcing routes after disabling route health injection

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
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, 13.0.0, 13.0.0 HF1, 13.0.0 HF2, 13.0.0 HF3, 13.0.1, 13.1.0, 13.1.0.1, 13.1.0.2, 13.1.0.3, 13.1.0.4, 13.1.0.5, 13.1.0.6, 13.1.0.7, 13.1.0.8, 13.1.1, 14.0.0, 14.0.0.1, 14.0.0.2

Fixed In:
14.1.0, 14.0.0.3, 13.1.1.2, 12.1.4

Opened: Feb 21, 2018

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

As a result of a known issue BIG-IP with BGP configured may continue to announce routes even after disabling the virtual address or disabling route announcement on the virtual address.

Impact

Prefixes continue to exist in the BGP table even after disabling the virtual address (visible via imish with the "show ip bgp" command); which will continue to announce the prefix to configured peers.

Conditions

BGP configured with multiple routes announced via Virtual-address route announcements. Configuration changes made on the BGP configuration itself. Virtual address or its route health announcement disabled.

Workaround

Workaround would be to restart the dynamic routing process.

Fix Information

BGP may no longer keeps announcing routes after disabling route health injection

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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