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Dazzla_20011's avatar
Dazzla_20011
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Nov 26, 2010

Help Major network outage involving F5 LTM

Hi,     I'm really hoping someone can help me. Last Friday we had a major problem which affected access to all our Core Systems. The initial problem was caused due to a bug within the Cisco Nexu...
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Paul_Szabo_9016
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Dec 06, 2010
What's worse is that only the failover VLAN was taken down and all of the other vlans were still connected. The arp storm was quite a spectacle to behold!

 

Then configuring network failover I make it mandatory to have a NON core network path between the two boxes (And avoid 9.4 because it'll only use ONE path for network failover traffic. WIth 10.x you can configure multiple connections).

 

 

Absolutely, highly important to have a redundant path for network failover traffic! That's why the multiple heartbeat paths feature was added (it actually started in v9.6.1)