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Tom_Bell_15050
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Jun 28, 2010

Issues getting second F5 to answer on real world IP

We have a mirrored configuration. Namely an ASA forwarding traffic to a F5 serving traffic from a pool of nodes behind it.     At one site we've successfully setup and tested the following.   ...
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L4L7_53191
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Jun 30, 2010
It may also be worth looking carefully at L2. You should see the active BigIP respond to arp requests for the Virtual Server in question. If you run a tcpdump on both systems and then issue a fail over you may be able to home in on what is going on and rule corrupt/incomplete/working arp tables in or out.

 

 

-Matt