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steph_01_143006
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Jul 10, 2014

Floating IP not needed if SNAT used

Hello,   I implemented 2 BIG-IP active/active with two traffic-groups. The VS are links to SNAT pool, so the floating IP is not needed, the servers in pool communicate with SNAT IP not with floati...
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JG
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Jul 11, 2014

However, if you have configured MAC masquerading, that helps.

See:

[sol11880: BIG-IP objects configured on a different subnet than the self IP address do not send gratuitous ARP requests during failover.](https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/11000/800/sol11880.html)