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F5_Jeff
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Nov 14, 2016

Self IP cannot be ping from Standby N7k

Hi everyone!   We were having trouble in pinging the self IP of the F5(Active and Standby) from the standby N7k. But when we tried sending ping from Active N7k, we were able to ping the self IPs o...
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Lee_Sutcliffe
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Nov 17, 2016

I assume with the Nexus you are using virtual port channels? It's common that when pinging from a standby Nexus that the reply is sent to the primary HSRP on the other switch. The loop prevention setup inherent as part of the vPC configuration can silently drop packets that are seen to crossing the vPC peer link.