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meena_60183
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May 25, 2010

Self-IP and VS is not pingable

I used the following link     http://devcentral.f5.com/Forums/tabid/53/aft/20979/afv/topic/Default.aspx     to implement Cisco NAC on our network using BigIP. I changed the drawing to inc...
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Michael_Yates
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May 26, 2010
I noticed that the F5 Self IP and Floating IP Addresses never respond to ICMP when our monitoring team attempted to use these as F5 Health Checks. I even started a continuous ping of the Self IP Address of the Standby Unit (in a High Availability Pair) and then direct a failover and it will stopped responding.

 

 

It is a normal behavior from what I have discovered.