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Mark_Cloutier
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Jul 29, 2013

Disabling interface on LTM VE

In preparation for importing the config from my physical boxes that the VE is replacing (tested out the physicals in my test network, prior to sending them to my DR datacenter) I wanted to disable th...
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Mark_Cloutier
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Aug 07, 2013
Further update.... although the interface is shown as down, and pings to self ips or to virtual servers do not respond, those virtual servers do answer arps even though the interface is supposedly down :( That means a lot more work in prepping for a migration from the physical pair to the new virtual. Basically I have to disable all the virtual addresses, and configure them not to answer an arp, whereas I had hoped that the migration would be as simple as disabling the external vlan interfaces on the physicals, and enable it on the virtual. Guess I still have to go thru the vi client interface to completely disconnect that interface....