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amit_128525
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Dec 29, 2013

Self ip vs floating ip

Was just trying to understand difference between self n floating IP address as in our environment we have 2 6900 f5 in active active pair And we have both self n floating ip configured for each Vlan...
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Thomas_Gobet_91
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Dec 29, 2013

Hi,

 

Self IP are used for each device. Each BIG-IP has a self-IP in a VLAN which is the IP defined on the interface.

 

Floating IP are for a cluster. They are VIPs, and this is the IP shared by your cluster members.

 

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Chung_Do_205917
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Dec 07, 2015
Why do we need two IP for this task? Is it possible to just use the Floating IP for each device and for Fail over function? thanks.