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F5Team
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Jan 17, 2024

ICMP packets on a TCP monitor

We observed an issue where the pool members are on cloud had ICMP disabled. F5 had route and able to telnet to member but the tcp monitor still marked down. Once the ICMP was enabled on the server en...
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The Node doesn't have any other monitor

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Mohamed_Salah_
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Jan 27, 2024

yes, you mentioned that before, I'm asking if the node is a member of any other pool?

  • F5Team's avatar
    F5Team
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    Jan 29, 2024

    Nodes are newly added. They are not part of any other pool.

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      F5Team
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      Jan 30, 2024

      Tested the same again in the lab.

      Default monitor has NOTHING.

      Added a new node to the Pool. It's not part of any other pools.
      Pool Monitor is set to only TCP and enabled tcpdump and we still see ICMP packets between F5 and node.

      Is this expected? 

       

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        boneyard
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        Jan 30, 2024

        I don't expect that, would open a F5 support case to have it investigated.