Bug ID 715548: NSH context is not preseved in the SFF while traversing a non-NSH aware SF

Last Modified: Sep 14, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
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

Fixed In:
15.0.0

Opened: Apr 17, 2018

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

A packet forwarded by a Service Function Forwarder (SFF) after being received from a non-Network Service Header (NSH) aware Service Function (SF), will not contain NSH context.

Impact

Loss of service dependent on content in a NSH context.

Conditions

Traffic going through a Service Function Chain (SFC) containing an F5 SFF subtending a non-NSH aware SF.

Workaround

There is no workaround at this time.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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