Bare Metal Edge with Mellanox NIC experiences BGP flapping
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Article ID: 324249
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Products
VMware NSX
Issue/Introduction
NSX 3.2.x/4.x
Bare Metal Edge with Mellanox ConnectX-4 or ConnectX-5 NICs
BGP flapping is observed
Data plane service on the Edge crashes /var/log/syslog
2023-08-09T02:46:02.699Z NSX 4547 - [nsx@6876 comp="nsx-edge" subcomp="node-mgmt" username="root" level="WARNING" eventFeatureName="infrastructure_service" eventType="edge_service_status_changed" eventSev="warning" eventState="On"] The service dataplane changed from STARTED to CRASHED.
On the Edge /var/dump has a datapath core file with a name similar to core.dp-fp
Environment
VMware NSX-T Data Center 3.x VMware NSX 4.x
Cause
This issue occurs due to a failure during packet processing by the NIC driver.
Resolution
This issue is resolved in VMware NSX 3.2.4 This issue is resolved in VMware NSX 4.1.2.2 This issue is resolved in VMware NSX 4.2.0