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Anthony
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Feb 14, 2014

ifconfig returns different MAC address to GUI

Hi all, I'm going through a project to reconfigure a pair of our LTMs, and I'm seeing some strangeness with regards to MAC addresses.   Whats reported in the interfaces list in the GUI doesn't ma...
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Cory_50405
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Feb 14, 2014

This is expected behavior. From the solution article I linked:

 

When a VLAN is created, a MAC address from the pool is assigned to the VLAN. When assigning a MAC address to the VLAN, the BIG-IP system may re-use a MAC address that was also assigned as one of the interface MAC addresses. The BIG-IP system uses this MAC address to pass L3 or above traffic.