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Ganesh_Garg's avatar
Ganesh_Garg
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Sep 11, 2015

LTM responding on behalf of servers which are down

We are running on version 11.6.0 HF5, The behavior I am getting is : -   Client(US)---LAN----F5(Inline mode)(China)---Servers(this is the setup)   Being a client I am able to ping the IP's whic...
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Jinshu's avatar
Jinshu
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Sep 11, 2015

As I understand from your question, you are getting ping responses from VIP even after the nodes are down, isn't it?

 

If thats case, thats the default behavior of F5 VIP. You can turn the VIP to disable mode to stop responding to ping/trace packets.

 

Disabling the ARP may cause you problems in future connectivity because ARP wont be updated for your VIP for your gateway and traffic might get mis-routed.

 

-Jinshu