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ralle_78154
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Jul 07, 2009

lasthop alternative for 9.3.x

Hello folks,     we need to pimp the lasthop of our incoming connections by replacing the physical mac with the hsrp mac to provide for a smooth failover in case of failure of one of the hs...
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hoolio
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Jul 08, 2009
That makes sense. Unfortunately, I don't think there is a way to configure this on LTM without the lasthop iRule function added in 9.4.0. I assume you cannot configure the upstream router to use the HSRP MAC address for sourcing the traffic?

 

 

It would be good to upgrade to 9.4.7 sometime soon (or maybe 10 at some point) regardless, as 9.3.x will be out of support in less than a year (12 Mar 2010 per SOL5903).

 

 

Aaron