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fpieressa
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May 21, 2015

Force gratuitous ARP after RMA

Hi! I will do an RMA, replacing one BigIP standalone box with a new one.   Is there any way to force BigIP to send gratuitous ARP for all the IP (VS, SelfIP) it has configured, so I will not need ...
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Pepillo_358524
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May 26, 2018

I found another articule (https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K19910045), I ran it and it works!

 

When I ran this procedure, I ran tcpdump too at a linux server, and this was the result.

 

f6:15:63:56:b3:04 > ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, ARP, length 60: Request who-has 10.0.141.254 (ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff) tell 10.0.41.252, length 46 f8:15:63:56:6b:0a > ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, ARP, length 60: Request who-has 10.0.141.1 (ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff) tell 10.0.41.1, length 46

 

Those are packets of Gratuitus ARP from F5 LTM.