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Brandon_79990
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Mar 27, 2012

Active/Passive pair on LTM and ARP updates on failover

Hello everybody,     I have looked around for this answer for a while, but I havent found anything that can fix my problem.     In a one-armed scenario, I have 2 Big-IP LTMs configured in ...
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Mar 29, 2012
Thanks Aaron!

 

 

I had read about MAC masquerading as a possibility but wasn't sure if that was right for our deployment. I went ahead and configured it. After the following process everything worked:

 

 

configure MAC masquerading

 

make the standby node the active node

 

clear ARP on the switches/core

 

move the active node back (or just keep it where its at)

 

 

 

For others' future reference, in v11.1 the process to configure MAC masquerading changed a bit:

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/13000/100/sol13145.html?sr=20405614

 

 

Thanks again