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dum0785
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Aug 05, 2020

BIG-IP send gratuitous ARP when force standby?

Hi,   I want you to tell me. Does BIG-IP send gratuitous ARP when the active unit is forcibly switched back to the standby state after a failover? (ex. run sys failover standby) ​ Also, can I ch...
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    Lidev
    Aug 05, 2020

    stanby member no, but the unit becoming active will send GARPs .

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dum0785
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Aug 05, 2020

Hi, Lidev​

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I read this.

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K15858

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"When the BIG-IP system becomes active, gratuitous ARP requests are also sent for floating self IP addresses and virtual IP addresses."

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Do you think BIG-IP will send GARP when you type "run sys failover standby" command?

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    Lidev
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    Aug 05, 2020

    stanby member no, but the unit becoming active will send GARPs .

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    dum0785
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    Aug 05, 2020

    OK. Thanks.