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Will_'s avatar
Will_
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Nov 10, 2014

Test VIP on Standby

Would you happen to know of a way to connect to the VIP on the standby BigIP? I tried "curl", via CLI, on the standby but the bugger goes to the active box to connect. I was hoping it would make an i...
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rob_carr
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Nov 10, 2014

The reason you can't connect to the VIP on the standby device is that the active device will be responding to any ARP requests for the IP address of the virtual server. You will have to implement the virtual targeting virtual scenario as suggested by R Marc if you really need to do this.