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Abhzi_114202
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Apr 21, 2013

IP Conflict in Server and F5 load Balancer

We faced an issue where server became inaccessible after reboot. It was not in network. While viewing from console we came to know that it was unable to assign IP address to the server and was throwi...
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Kevin_Stewart's avatar
Kevin_Stewart
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Apr 21, 2013
Can I assume you're trying to use the same IP address on the F5 that you're using for the Linux server? And are you configuring the F5 to load balance services on the Linux server? If yes to the first, it's generally not meant to work that way when load balancing end point services like web servers. In this case the F5 presents a virtual representation of an application to users with a single dedicated IP address. Users contact that IP address for services and the F5 load balances those requests to potentially many servers on different IP addresses. The F5 would not use the same IP address assigned to another server.