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cafnetmatt
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May 23, 2025

Route Domains HA & Traffic Groups

Running Big-IP 17.5 on a pair of r4600's. On a pair of tenants, we're running a parent-child route domain setup.  We're doing this not for IP overlap but for routing purposes. The virtual server ad...
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KeesvandenBos
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May 24, 2025

Hi,

With HA, I would use the mgmt interface IP and HA-Sync vlan for HA heartbeat traffic. This is recommended by F5, hoping you are using different switch infra for this, avoiding a split brain.
It is better to have one traffic group to avoid strange behavior.

Cheers,

Kees