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keith_varga_107's avatar
keith_varga_107
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Nov 16, 2015

ping return time <1ms but only on load balanced nodes

Hi Dev Central Team, We're running 11.6 Hotfix 3 on a active/standby physical F5 pair. We noticed that when we ping www.google.com (or any outside domain), that the time returned is less than 1 m...
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keith_varga_107's avatar
keith_varga_107
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Nov 16, 2015

Is there some way (or workaround) to get the realistic tracerts for our load balanced nodes?

 

Brad_Parker's avatar
Brad_Parker
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Nov 16, 2015
Not if you are using the LTM as the default gateway in your config. What are you trying to get at with pings? Ping really isn't a metric to be used to gauge performance anyway as most devices classify it as low priority and may even discard it when under load.