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Zdenda
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May 17, 2014

MAC masquerading in v11.

Hi, I checked articles here nad here. And do I understand correctly that in v11 there is used only one floating MAC address for ALL vlans configured on F5? We use only one traffic group so it seems t...
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What_Lies_Bene1
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May 19, 2014

Just to add to clarify this for others, it's a single MAC address for all self IP addresses in a single Traffic Group. If it was for all VLANs and you had multiple Traffic Groups split across two or more devices you'd have some real problems with the same MAC appearing on multiple switch ports.