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ni_67218
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Nov 10, 2012

floating IP and self IP

when I create a floating ip, I get the information "Self IP 3.3.3.3 is declared as a floating address but there is no non-floating address defined for this network"?   why is the system give me t...
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Nov 12, 2012
Posted By What Lies Beneath on 11/12/2012 08:34 AM

 

I'd highly recommend a floating address for any VLAN that is used for Virtual Servers unless clients are on the same VLAN. You wouldn't want to route traffic to the active device non-floating Self IP, if a failover occurred you've lost your service!

 

Are you talking about the scenario where we use F5 as the gateway for the subnet?