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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
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Nov 16, 2015

Hi Brad,

 

One of our customers is complaining of latency, and we wanted to run tracerts on our load balanced nodes to see issues with specific hops in the round trip to them. but, we cannot see the tracerts because of this issue.

 

Thanks Keith

 

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Brad_Parker
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Nov 16, 2015
You could always run a traceroute from the BigIP itself if you wanted to see the hops upstream. But again like I said, ping is not a very good tool to determine performance. ICMP is not TCP. They are treated different by routers and such.