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Sep 08, 2015

Packet loss on Failover F5 Viprion Active/Standby

I have 2 F5 viprion chassis each with a single blade. I have configured them as a active / standby with mac masqurade. I am doing some testing using pings one every second (default) and find that on ...
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Sep 09, 2015

I would think that lost ping is due to the network having to update it's ARP cache for the newly active F5. Although mac masquerade is in use, the newly active F5 is on a different port, hence ARP needs updating for same mac on new interface.