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Stewart_76633
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Mar 20, 2013

seeing failover events

When over in the data center recently I noticed on the front panel of our F5's that several active/standby changes had occured between the 3 appliances we have. This was news to me as I'd not seen an...
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Stewart_76633
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Mar 20, 2013
I have a bunch of these:

 

 

/var/log/ltm:Mar 20 09:51:49 dcsltm01 notice sod[4708]: 010c002a:5: Requesting tmm to resend gratuitous arps for traffic group /Common/traffic-group-1.

 

/var/log/ltm:Mar 20 11:11:32 dcsltm01 notice sod[4708]: 010c002a:5: Requesting tmm to resend gratuitous arps for traffic group /Common/traffic-group-1.

 

/var/log/ltm:Mar 20 13:59:47 dcsltm01 notice sod[4708]: 010c002a:5: Requesting tmm to resend gratuitous arps for traffic group /Common/traffic-group-1.

 

 

I think the only time it would request a device send a gratuitous arp is when a failure has occured, or would you expect more info?