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newf5learner
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Aug 23, 2016

F5 connection mirroring - Active standby pair with network failover (vlan)

Hi,   I have a pair of F5 devices in Active standby pair. I have used network failover with a ethernet cable between the two LTMs on interface 1.8 with failsafe vlan.   Self-IP address for Fa...
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Vijay_E
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Aug 23, 2016

Without connection mirroring enabled, the standby won't know of the connections in the active device and after failover, established connections may be dropped. Clients would have to re-establish connections. Floating IP address will get mapped to the MAC address of the newly active F5 instead of the previously active F5.