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Mia_27938
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Oct 25, 2012

The qustion about the ARP broadcast on the BIG-IP

Hi,   I have the qustion about the ARP broadcast on the BIG-IP   I know that the default behavior about ARP option on the BIG-IP is,   - Dynamic Timeout 300seconds   - Request Retries 6...
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What_Lies_Bene1
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Oct 25, 2012
If you did the capture on the switch by capturing the VLAN rather than just the port connecting the F5 then you might be seeing the same ARP packet multiple times as it's forwarded to each relevant port in that VLAN. I'd suggest you fine tune your capture somewhat by restricting the capture to the ingress port or making it more verbose so it displays the VLAN and port the packet is seen on.