Last Modified: May 18, 2023
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP MA-VE
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, 15.0.0, 15.0.1, 15.0.1.1, 15.0.1.2, 15.0.1.3, 15.0.1.4, 15.1.0, 15.1.0.1, 15.1.0.2, 15.1.0.3, 15.1.0.4, 15.1.0.5, 15.1.1, 15.1.2, 15.1.2.1, 15.1.3, 15.1.3.1, 15.1.4, 15.1.4.1, 15.1.5, 15.1.5.1, 15.1.6, 15.1.6.1, 15.1.7, 15.1.8, 15.1.8.1, 15.1.8.2, 16.0.0, 16.0.0.1, 16.0.1, 16.0.1.1, 16.0.1.2, 16.1.0, 16.1.1, 16.1.2, 16.1.2.1, 16.1.2.2, 16.1.3, 16.1.3.1, 16.1.3.2, 16.1.3.3, 16.1.3.4
Opened: Jul 01, 2020 Severity: 3-Major Related Article:
K27872027
BIG-IP Virtual Edition (VE) does not pass traffic when deployed on ESXi 6.5 hypervisors, when the VE is using VMXNET 3 network interfaces (VMXNET 3 interfaces are the default). 'tmsh show net interface' indicates that one or more interfaces are not initialized.
Traffic does not pass through non-mgmt interfaces.
-- BIG-IP VE running on VMware ESXi 6.5 hypervisor.
-- On the BIG-IP systems, you can switch to the 'sock' driver. Note: The workarounds that switch driver must be applied individually to devices, as they do not synchronize via ConfigSync. IMPORTANT: The driver must be configured the same way on all devices in a sync-failover device group. 1, At the command prompt, run the following command to enable the sock driver in tmm_init.tcl: echo "device driver vendor_dev 15ad:07b0 sock" >> tmm_init.tcl 2. Restart tmm: tmsh restart sys service tmm -- After restarting, the sock driver should be listed in the 'driver_in_use' column when running the following command. tmctl -d blade tmm/device_probed pci_bdf pseudo_name type available_drivers driver_in_use ------------ ----------- --------- --------------------- ------------- 0000:03:00.0 F5DEV_PCI xnet, vmxnet3, sock, 0000:0b:00.0 1.1 F5DEV_PCI xnet, vmxnet3, sock, sock 0000:13:00.0 1.2 F5DEV_PCI xnet, vmxnet3, sock, sock 0000:1b:00.0 1.3 F5DEV_PCI xnet, vmxnet3, sock, sock
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