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Jonathan_c
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Jul 20, 2025

No traffic on network card in virtual Big-IP

Hi, We have two virtual deployments of F5 version 17.1.2.2 in a VMware environment,  Each deployment has 3 network cards: MGMT external (for VSs) internal (for backend pool) Lately we started...
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Jonathan_c
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Jul 21, 2025

Hi VGF5​ ,

I already saw this post, and although it looks similar, it reffers to VMware NSX environment which we don't use.

Today it happened again, and I noticed thatif I try to ping one of the VSs, it doesn't work, but after a few seconds if somehow "refreshes" the NIC and everything starts working again. Just like disableing/enabling the NIC in the VM.

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Jul 21, 2025

Thank you for the update. If this issue persists, I recommend creating new instances, testing them, and observing the traffic. If everything works as expected, add those two devices to the sync group and delete the existing instances. 

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    Jonathan_c
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    Jul 22, 2025

    Maybe I wasn't clear but these are two standalone deployments and it happens on both of them randomaly, not at the same time.