Forum Discussion
LBJ
Mist
MistOSPF Route Advertisement for Floating Self IP in Active/Standby HA
Hi all In an Active/Standby HA deployment using OSPF network statements to advertise connected VLAN prefixes, both BIG-IPs advertise the same connected subnet. When the floating self IP is used as t...
Nikoolayy1
MVP
MVPWhat is the exact issue you are having?
I have similar setup for BGP F5 advertising the floating ip is much better than devices where the standby is "death" and only when the active goes down then OSPF or BGP sessions need to be established.
The new active F5 will send gARP for the floating IP. Some network environments dislike or drop gARP and then Configuring MAC masquerade (11.x - 21.x) is used as then the F5 devices use vMAC that will failover to the new active F5.
You need to properly test and know your network environment.
