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mukul
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Sep 18, 2017

Management IP Requirement?

what are the limitations,or cons or disadvantages of using self ip to access GUI and perform all my other actions on f5 recommend to use a mgmt ip? For what specific reason there is a need for mgmt ...
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BB16
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Sep 19, 2017

As fluent and knowledgeable answered by Leonardo above, Self-IP traffic or access thru self-ip is manage by TMM (traffic management micro-kernel) which could break during restart hence it is good to have access thru management IP.