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canuck
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Apr 30, 2021

MAC masquerade and BIGIP-VE

Does anyone have experience setting up BIGIP-VE MAC Masquerade in an ESX environment without using Promiscuous mode? Is it possible to not use Promiscuous mode and just set Accept for MAC address ch...
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Katherine_Villa
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Hi! What problem did you have? Unreachable VS?

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canuck
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Sep 24, 2024

No problem. I was trying to optimize usage of my 10gig interfaces and heard conflicting information regarding HA network configuration with ESXi. I am presently configured to accept Promiscuous mode, MAC address changes, and Forged transmits. Some users said Promiscuous mode was not needed, but I didn't have time to test without it, so I still do not know. My end-goal is to maintain sub-second BIGIP LTM failover with minimal network overhead.