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Derek_21893's avatar
Derek_21893
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Aug 11, 2009

Is a floating self-ip really necessary?

Hi, I'm hoping someone here can provide a little more insight on if a floating self-ip is truly necessary for an Active-Standby configuration.     A little context is possibly in order. I'...
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sojan_86359
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Jul 02, 2013

When you do SNAT , it pickup the egress vlans floating IP as the source address . Since floating IP is shared between the devices , the reply traffic from the server can be handled by standby unit as well , if there was a failure of active unit any time.

 

 

So floating IP is a nice feature. Hop this is something you should consider.

 

Regards

 

Sojan