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Macaron
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Mar 09, 2017

Self and Floating IP mac-address conflict

Hi, I am trying to troubleshoot one of the server behind F5 VIP. I disabled the 2 servers out of 3, to isolate the issue. The LTM is in active/standby configuration. There is self and floating ...
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Macaron
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Mar 09, 2017

Thanks Kai, for clarifying the same MAC address concept for both self and floating IP addresses. I thought the issue is because of that, but I made it to work by adjusting the Maximum segment size value. Apparently, the client packet size has an overhead due to which the connection was getting reset and after the MSS is adjusted to 1300, application started to work as expected.

 

Thanks

 

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    Kai_Wilke
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    Mar 09, 2017

    Good to hear you've solved your problem. MSS related problems are sometimes very hard to analyse... ;-)

     

    Cheers, Kai