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faizan123_23330
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Jul 26, 2017

Ping from source ip address

Hi,   I have F5 LTMs in our production environment. I assign the two different ip addresses on two interfaces (1.1,1.2) 1.1 --> 10.1.1.1 1.2 --> 20.1.1.1   The default route on the F5 is (0.0....
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Stan_Ward's avatar
Stan_Ward
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Jul 15, 2020

When I try that (on 14.1.2.3), I get:

 

bind: Cannot assign requested address

 

It doesn't matter whether the IP is a self IP, a float, a SNAT, or a VIP, the message is always the same.

 

There are no route domains except the default %0.

 

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Jimmy_L
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Jan 29, 2021

Stan,

 

I had the same problem, but I found it was because I was in a different partition than the one in which my source self IP resided. From TMSH before switching to BASH do a "cd /<partition>" to switch to the partition where your self IP is, then switch to BASH an use Jad's ping command.