MX VPN Concentrator VRRP bug in 15.43 & 15.44

shaunchivers
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MX VPN Concentrator VRRP bug in 15.43 & 15.44

I have pair of MX250's (single interface, warm spare configuration) as an SD-WAN hub site. We see the warm unit sending its management traffic (e.g traffic to dashboard) with the VRRP source MAC rather than its own burnt in MAC. I have had a TAC case open for a few weeks now which is with engineering again as an upgrade to 15.44 did not resolve.

 

I am interested to see if anyone else has experienced this VRRP bug? 

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DarrenOC
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We haven’t experienced this directly but a peer had this happen across a large sd-wan estate. From memory support made a vpn registry change?

Darren OConnor | doconnor@resalire.co.uk
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RaphaelL
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 Hi ,

 

I was curious about that behavior so I did a couple packet captures on both our MX450 and MX250 Warm Space ( LAN captures )

 

MX450 MX 15.40  : 

Uses the burned-in MAC for the VRRP MAC ( not following the standard in RFC 5798 )

 

MX250 MX 14.53

Uses a special MAC CC:03:D9 + End of the burned-in MAC of the device  ( not following the standard in RFC5798 )

 

I'm a little bit surprised to see that both MX450 and MX250 are not following the RFC AND they are not even using the same mecanic for the VRRP MAC selection.... 

ww
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@RaphaelL are the mx250 and 450 on the same firmware?

RaphaelL
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Woops ! I just edited my post to include the firmware versions. I will have to test in my lab if bringing the MX250 to the MX450 version will change the behavior ( which is still not the one expected from the RFC ) 

 

I was expecting a MAC 00-00-5E-00-01-XX

suneq
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Hi,

Yes, we've just downgraded all our MX 450 today from version 15.44 to 15.42. The support said that it impact only the management traffic but for us even the site-to-site tunnels were affected: it took hours to bring up a tunnel without any specific reason. As soon as we downgrade to version 15.42, all our site-to-site tunnels which were down went up.

Maybe some coincidence I dont' know 🙂

RaphaelL
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 Where you able to confirm if the VRRP MAC between your MX450 and MX250 followed the same mechanic  ?

RaphaelL
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Sorry to bring an old thread back to life , have you tried 15.44.1 which might solve this issue ?

Upgrading to MX 16.16 resolved the issue

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