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Kirit_Patel_521
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Dec 06, 2010

NIC teaming on windows server

ALL     We ran into problem where servers behind f5 were doing nic teaming. So traffic was going out on both nics . This did not work well with f5 ltm version 9.4.8. Once we changed the nic team...
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hooleylist
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Dec 06, 2010
SOL3009 has info on this. Basically, if you do want to use teamed NICs, you can't use the PVA as it won't be able to handle a change in MAC address mid-session.

 

 

SOL3009: Configuring BIG-IP to load balance traffic to nodes that use redundant network interface cards

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/3000/000/sol3009.html

 

 

But as Chris said, using trunks is a more resilient option.

 

 

Aaron