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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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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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Nov 16, 2015
thanks much Brad. That's what i recommended as well (to just do the tracert from the router itself), but the application team still wants to know if there's a way around the behavior.