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Ron_Peters_2122
Sep 15, 2016Altostratus
ARP/MAC Tables Not Updating on Core Switches After F5 LTM Failover (GARP Issue?)
We have two F5 LTM 5250v appliances configured with 2 vCMP instances each in an HA pair (Active/Standby). Each F5 5250v has a 10G uplink to two core switches (Cisco Nexus 7010) configured as an LACP ...
tatmotiv
Sep 23, 2016Cirrostratus
Same here. I was also sceptical regarding MAC masquerading, but upon experiencing the above mentioned ARP problems in the nexus infrastructure (which were somehow related to fabric-path if I remember correctly), I converted all (60+) traffic-groups on my devices to MAC masquerading and didn't have any bad experiences. We are also connecting to Nexus switches using vpc (albeit N5Ks as spines, being cross-connected via N7Ks as hubs) and we are also using vcmp (on Viprion though, not 5250).
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