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keshavraikot_31
Nimbostratus
May 30, 2017MAC masquerade on F5 LTM
Can someone give me a more clarification about MAC masquerade on traffic group? How does it is different from per vlan configuration.when we configure floating mac on each vlan so f5 have floating ma...
crodriguez
Jun 02, 2017Ret. Employee
I don't know if you have seem this already, but there is a good response to a similar MAC masquerade question here: https://devcentral.f5.com/questions/how-does-mac-masquerading-work-exactly-50993
MAC Masquerade applies to the traffic group. Yes, gARPs are still issued when a failover occurs but, as the article states, the effect is minimized since the MAC address itself does not change. MAC masquerade reduces the possibility that devices that are slower to respond to gARP will still try to send traffic to the device that failed.
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