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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 22, 2013
From a routing perspective, it's generally not acceptable (unless doing something like Anycast) to use the same IP address on multiple devices (in the same subnet). You can get away with it though, as Aaron mentioned in a previous post, by statically defining the ARP entries on the client devices, but that's probably not your intention either. Can you elaborate on your gateway configuration? And also why you need to have the same IP on both of these devices?