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Amresh008
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Jun 13, 2017

Is Mac masquerade necessary ?

I have a pair of F5 7200v configured in single arm mode setup acting as Active/Standby. Both of them are connected to nexus 7k distribution switches and the latter are connected to each other via tru...
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Jun 13, 2017

Depends

 

IF the Nexus 7k is using F1 line cards, and IF the linecards are to remain default MAC update limits to < 100 / second, and IF you have more than 100 virtual + floating addresses, YES you very much need mac masquerading.

 

You really don't want to ask me how I know this....

 

//Jan